Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1885-07-01
A GrieyOus Error.

A GrievOus Error.
By one Of those unforeseen acct
dents which will occasionally occur
in the best regulated newspaper
establishments, an erroneous par
agraph was incorporated with the
TRIBUNE's report Of the great cele-
bration of Est. John le Baptiste
day. by our French Canadian ci-
items on the Oath instant.
This report was made by one of
our most careful newsgatherers,
and a reporter who was employed
on the TRIBUNE long before the
present management took charge,
and on the p. p. before that. The
report was sent in on the last train
from the lake that night, and was
hastily prepared at about 1o'clock,
The lateness Of the hour made but
a hasty examination possible, and
this Objectionable paragraph which,
more by insinuation than assertion,
stated that the boys were somewhat
hilarious, ETC., did not catch the
city editors eye till it appeared in
print the next day, and was not
observed at all by the proprietors
until their attention was called
to it by one Of our good Canadian
friends.
No one can regret such an error
more than the TRIBUNE, and more
especially as it concerns a class Of
people whose presence is and
should always be welcome, in any
part Of this great republic.
No American, or the descendant
of the revolutionary fathers, can
ever forget that our French citi-
zens come from race to whom the
American people are more deeply
indebted for their liberty and
greatness than to any other cause
or people. The French first con-
quered the prairies Of Minnesota,
and the French priesthood were
the first white men to set foot upon
the banks of the Father Of Waters.
When Great Britain had practical
ly wrested this great land from the
French people by conquest, and
had ruled it as a colony till the
iron heel had sunk too. deep for
liberation, and our revolutionary
fathers threw off the despotic yoke
and began the struggle for free
dom, whose was the strong right
arm which came to her support at
a time when the whole gigantic
possibilities of the entire war hung
trembling in the balance? When
to have refused aid would have an
initiated the colonial army, hanged
Washington and the old congress,
and thrown the people into abject
servitude +? Whose was the arm,
and what was the nation which
threw himself into the breach and
decided the cause in favor Of hui
man liberty and there planted the
foundations for the superstructure
Of the grandest nation upon the
face Of the earth ? That arm was
the arm Of Lafayette, the bright
est and purest statesman Of his
age, the friend of Washington !;
and that nation was the great en-
pire Of France, now the second
greatest republic Of modern times.
Could it be possible for any
American to forgetthat our French
Canadian people are the descend
ants of this same great France, and
are really our brothers with nearly
as much. right to the land as the
American themselves? No, indeed,
no man who loves his country and
is proud Of her history and jealous
Of her friends, could for a moment
do an intentional injustice to such
a people.
These citizens have always been
the friends Of the TRIBUNE and
true to the best interests Of Min
neapolis, and we do not believe
that they can be soured and driven
away, by any imprudence Of q
mere reporter, or the cunning Of q
willy enemy.
D'apr6s une entente entire les
gouyernements AMERICAN ct an
glais le trait6 de Washington re-
latif aux pecheries demeurera en-
force jusqu'a la fin de la pr6sente
saison de peche ct l'automne pro-
chain, la question sera soumise au
Congress on renvoy6e 3 une COM
mission mixte institu6e par les
gouvernements DIES Etats- Unis ct
d'Angleterre.
ii a etc commits $3.50 meurtres
aux Etats- Unis en- 1883 en- 1884,
1897.