Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-09

As we expected the Toronto Mail now
talks in different key. The Riel re
bellion is no longer mn insignificant little
row 10 be shifted ut it has sprung into
alarming dimensions with celebrity calcu-
lated to mike the Toronto Mai mans hair
carl, and he now says that there are three
things the public must bear in mind and
parliament must have constantly pressed
on it first, a larger estimate for the
volunteer and militia forces second,
much larger aud better
equipped and more thoroughly efficient
mounted police in the northwest
third, larger Indian appropriation. A
week before, as previously quoted in
EVERY EVENING, the Mail had dismissed
the insurrection as amounting only to the
cutting of II telegraph line and the steal
ing of few post horses. Now it says
I'VE cannot afford such another rising MS
this in the next half-century, and, in
order TO make such rising iinpossi-
BILE, we must continually keep
in that country force sufficient to allay
the fears of the most timid, and must so
deal with the Indians that they will not
have cause to grumble." Writing of the
causes of the rebellion from an admins
tration standpoint the Mail charges the
responsibility for the same upon the anti
administration or Crit party" which
went out of power in 1878. 1t says:
In 1871 the Riel rebellion was largely
fomented by the encouragement held out
TO the rebels by the Grit organ in Toronto
and by the policy of the Grit party. From
1874 to 1878 1t Is confessed that the Girl
government totally neglected to settl,
grievances which In 1875 they confessed
were dangerous. From 1873 to this dat,
the whole northwest has been the object o
Grit experiments in malice. Winnipeg ha,
been its washpot, and over Regina II has
cast its shoe. II has fomented every dis
turbance and fostered all discomfort. Mr.
Blake and his friends have three or fou
times encouraged the province to rebe
against the due exercise OF the Dominion
power of disallowance. They have mad
themselves the champion of every swindlinl
spectator who called himself an "hones
squatter." They have tried TO drive tn
people away from our own west over int
the American territory. II there has bee
a spark of disafrection they have tried I
fan 1t into blaze. If there has been cas-
of disappointment they have magniiled
into case of oppression. They have pre-
vided, in the course of few years. for tn
northwest a horde of mischievOus wretche
ready for any mischief.
But there is clearly great deal of pal
tisan spirit in these accusations, for tn
Mail admits that the rebels have SON
unsettled causes of complaint against Il
present government. 1t admits thu
''there were h,hf-breed claims which IL
government has been extinguishing {
settling there were grievances which Il
government has been remedying the
was a little disNffection and the COVER
ment has been preparing to preserve IL
peace; there has been demonstrate
and the government has been prompt
meet and suppress it,"
One thing seems clear-that the insu
rectionists have had the moral support
considerable semi-rebellious element
the Dominion, and that there was more
turmoil than has appeared ON the surfac
The Mail even charges THAT for sol
years the dynamitists have had t
organs Che Toronto GIObe'S) sympath
and accuses its editor, Mr.. Blake, who
an opposition member of parliamei
with the delivery of speech full ''of n
and comfort to the rebels and pregna
with what under more serious circul
stances would be called TREASON" Il
as Blake is credited elsewht
with having the next day changed
tune and sought 'to retrace his ste
and regain his lost position by oiIcri
his services, anything he could do, *
to the government" we may conclu
that the disaiiection is giving way t.
feeling that the first business of all 10.
Canadians is ''to put down the rebellion
and we doubt very much whether
talked-of Fenian invaders would fl
more friends in Ontario or Quebec II
than the patriots did half a century ~