Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-02
The "Yankee HowI'' i'm Canada.

| Who are sYankees?' Tn ere are bad Yan-
 kees, just as there are bad English and l Scotch, and even as there are bad Canadians l But, as class, there are no more active, | energetic, ingenius, intelligent, thrifty, re- liable, better educated people on this conti-
 uent than these same Yankees, whose very name is taken as term of reproach by those stolid Tory incapables at Ottawa who write,
 to their country's injrsy and disgrace, M. P.
 after their names The world is in 8 ferment
 with the activity of these people, and almost
 every household is daily feeling the benefit
 of their ingenuity and ''go." Every man of
 sense in Canada would wish to have more of
 them among our citizens, for almost every where they are leaders in industrial enter prises and active helpers in every good work. They are too cosmopolitan to look with @ jeal-
 ous eye on young Canadians who cross the
 lines, and if we give more of our sons to them than they give back to us of theirs, ours is the loss to us in both ways.
 The small tribal jealousies ftly voiced by these political marionettes at Ottawa find no echo among the great mass of Canadians. The men who are thus reproached-whether across the lines or in our own land-are "our kin;" of the same grand old race, with the same language and literature, aye, and to a large extent, with the same history and tradi
 tions. We trade with them. We intermar- " with their daughters. We welcome them to our homes. and we welcomed with eff. fusive yet most genuine hospitality to theirs, England herself covets her best men, and would fain keep the Lowells that come as visitors and make them permanently her own. They no doubt sometimes steal our clergymen and often run away with both our sons and daughters. But we do our best to pay them back in kind, and we all dis cover that such mutual interchanges, whether of courtesies or thefts, are advantageous all around.
 And now, in the midst of all this, when we are only too thankful to have Yankee with Gatling in the Northwest, it seems
 we have many who, with souls small that if enclosed in a nutshell they would escape at maggot's hole, have nothing better or more seemly to say or do than to shout "Yankee" against political opponent, as if insult could no further go and scornful con tempt could find no more fitting or effective expletivei
 We should be sorry if any were to judge Canadians in general by the conduct and talk of such 'lewd fellows of the baser sort" We are not so provincial in our ideas, small and local incur prejudices as some of our unfortunate representatives would give the outside world to believe we are. Besides, we rather think that this "Yankee" cry comes chiefly out on occasions when the shouters scarcely responsible agents.
 'tThe sons of Behial, clothed with infamy and wine" are not yet all dead, and they sometimes, as of old, even yet, not only
 make night hideous, but turn legislative halls into something more like resorts for drunken roysterers than places where the country's
 ''best'' are understood to do that country'a
 best and highest work.
 Bicycle riders should remember that it is viola tion of city ordinance to ride upon sidewalks or capes of people walking where the streets were dinly lighted are reported. A bicycle makes no noise and can easily run over man before he has
 the least hint of its vicinity and it is this fact that largely led to the exclusion of wheelmen from the waIks-Hartford Courant.
 man supposed to be Walter Holcomb who had recently been working in the vicinity was killed on wood Saturday morning.
 The Hartford Courant says: Some trouble is bor
 rowed by critics in various papers about MT Troups appointment internal revenue collector for Con necticut. Mir. Troup will receive his Commission
 and there IS no probability of any change in the ap- polntment It is possible that Colonel Selden af-
 ter fifteen of service will receive the courtesy of being allowed to close the fiscal year. which oc
 CUTS on the 30th of June. The delay in forwarding
 commission to MT. Troup is undoubtedly due to this courtesy to Colonel Selden and the convenience to the government of making the change at the close 1 of the year, and to nothing else,
 Ferdinand G. Miller, son of Henry Miller of South Glastonbury, drowned in the Connecti-
 cut river nearly opposite his fathers residence Saturday evening between and eight o'clock.
 It is supposed young Miller was taken under by his | clothing or had cramp He was the oldest son of Henry e. Miller,a prominent citizen and selectman