The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-11-22

"raridly improving and hope 10 be present at the
injecting OF Congress" This viii Of fcoursc be good
news TO Mr.. Boyes and large circle of friends here.
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Mr.. WILLIE WINTER, in the New York Tribune,
devotes over a column TO fulsomc praise OF Mary
Anderson's thunder.toned, cenechewiug Jniet,
and dismisscs the first propuctlon OF Corio,dnus by
Salvlni with dozen ratronizlng lines Yet this is
criticism OF the metropolitan stamp, which "provin-
" cias " are expected to heed with fear and trcm-
bling, and which II is rank heresy to denounce as
rubbish.
EN.CoACnMAS ScHEttISG has taken place as
conductor on the slxth-avenue tramway. This is
beginning grade higher than his father-ln-law, who
was only brakeman on the Erie Railway. Mrs.
Victoria Schelling (or Huelskamp) Is singing In the
chorus at the Casino. by thus earning an honest
living this worthy couple hope in time TO "live
"down the fact, for which they are in no way re-
sponsble, that the "old man is connected in busi.
ness with Jay Gould.
The New York Post which always pokes fun at
the literary slips OF It's neghbors, said last Tuesday
in an article on criminal reports in the cheap news.
papcrs Here, too there is hint in steads course,
"when knowing OF no abduction to describe, he alb.
"ducted himself in order to write article about
"hn IL Mr.. stead had only abducted himself, 1t IL
quite certain there would have been no complaint,
aud certainly trial about 1t, provided only he had
abducted himself fast and far enough never TO lie
heard of again.
SOME OF the newspapers jump at conclusions and
thereby do injustice as was the case with the Post
when 1t announced that Hon. George A. Post, of
Pennsylvania, would be candidate for Doorkeeper
OF the House. Mr.. Post is not only not candidate
for that place. but under no circumstances whatever
would he become candidate for it, Mr. Post has
only been in Washington very few times since last
spring. His visits have always been very short, and
he never comes to Washington in search of any
thing for himself, but only to discharge duties he
owes to his party and to his Democratic friends ami
neghbors.
IT really seems that "our Mary is our Mary no
longer. The New York papers have recorded that
when she recently removed her quarters In that city
from the aristocratic Hotel Buckingham to the still
more English, you know Hotel Clarendon she
recorded herself her brother, and her maid as "of
London while she put down old step-papa Ham.
Grifin as plain "New York" This was regarded
by lenient commentators as childish notion or
piece of affectaiion, and net as due to lack of
patriotism in the Blue Grass heroine. Now infor-
nation reaches this office from gentleman in the
trade that when Miss Anderson subscribed for
handsome special edition of Shakespeare in New
York she was careful to put down her address in
her own dashing chirography as MARY Anderson
&c The Bottoms S. w, London and directed the
volumes to be sent TO that place, which is her sub
urban villa, and apparently to remain her future resi-
dence, her Long Branch place being already sold.
II she fails otherwise, Miss Anderson ought to be
able TO secure profitable engagement in the dime
museums at any time, as sad case of q Young
woman with her head turned completely around.
Hon. J. W. LoNGLET, in a series of able articles
in the Toronto Week. exposing the fallacious idea
that the Dominion of Canada contains the elements
of healthy national growth. In his last paper he
says:
all comparison, the greatest markets which the peo.
pie OF Ontario possess; that free access to them
would be the greatest commercial boon which could,
by any power or possibility, be bestowed upon them
and that want Of such access is tax and an incu-
bus upon every productive industry of the Province
Those who have resolved that intcr-Provncia trade
shall be forced by the iron arm Of the law have at
tempted to decree that Ontario shall buy her coal
from Nova Scotia. How has the experiment worked? ?
An enormous tax mas been imposed upon the people
OF Ontario for coal. while no market OF any practical
value has been created for the coal of Nova Scotia
God and Nature have decreed that the people of On
taro shall obtain their coal from PENNSYLVANIA; and
II prodiglous and burdensome tariffs ever succeed
In overriding this high decree the people of Ontario
VIII pay the penalty as bitterly as the people Of the
Maritime Provinces are paying the penalty of being
compelled TO buy their -four from country with
which they have no natural trade. This reasoning
will apply with equal force to Manitoba and the
Northwest. Their interests are nexoraby bound
up with the cities OF St Paul, Minneapolis and other
with Ontario is perpetual burden and their forced
expulsion from the markets of the American States
impeding er prospery Il IS mpossSe 10 name
any two sections of this vast Dominion which have
any natural commercial interests with each other.
Ana af the sentiment, all the fine talk about this
"Great Dominion, ,'ths Canada of Ours, ,''cannot per-
manently affect the ultimate logic of these tremen
dous facts. IL Canada was surrounded by savage
races, or even by an allen with whom it could
have nothing In common could not amalgamate, the
attempt to bind together the EnglishspeakiDg peo-
Nln hn ynrth aF
great effort: indeed, it might become political
necessity. But the fact is we are simply part OF
great civilized, enlightened, well-governed, and
progressive English-speaking continent. The popu-
la'on OF Canada is about five millions. Beside us
are afy-g millions OF Just such people as we
Is Ontario great free, sef.governiDg State fore
most In education social refinement, and moral ele
vation? Is not Ohio the same? Is not New York,
shtened and well governeds Is there not as large
q moral element in-say. political matters-as in
ontario? No reason worth moments consdera-
lion can be given for the erection OF commercial
barriers upon the mere artificial and imaginary
boundary lines which separate the two countries.
one OF the tests OF commercial interest between
countries is the intermingling of the people. How
does this affect the argument as TO the commercial
unity OF the various portions of this Dominion? In
Nova Scotia there IL scarcely family which has
not q son or daughter in some part OF the New
England States. Tens OF thousands of our young
men and women go thither every year. 1t is said,
on fairly good authority, that there are more Nova
Scotlans ID Boston than in Halifax. How many
noya scotians ever go, or ever dream OF going, to
sense Not because Ontario is not as fine a country
as Massachusetts,, but simply because there is no
PROVINCES; whereas between Nova Scotia and Mas
sachusefts there is o natural connection. Tens OF
thousands OF Americans visit Nova Scotia every
year. Hundreds OF them are settled here, working
our mines and operating our lumber fields. How
ollen nave we the pleasure OF beholding fair
specimen of the genuine citizen OF ontario? The
same reason is applicable in the OF the Upper
proynces. Tens OF thousands OF the sons and
daughters OF Ontario have gone to the Middle and
western States. Tens OF thousands OF Americans
flock to Ontario every summer. Quebec has sent
out hundreds Of thousands OF its French population
10 the States, and the hotels Of Montrealare crowded
with American guests. These things prove clearer
and more eloquently than all the orations which
empty sentiment has inspired where each portion
OF this great Dominion finds its natural complement
u Is not TOO much to say that the New England
states are more TO the Maritime Provinces than the
rest OF the world Blot out the trade Of New Eng
land from Western Nova Scotia and the result would
be despair. Give free access 10 the markets OF New
England, and remove all barriers TO trade, and
much TO say that the States of New York, Pennsyl-
yanla, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois are more to On
OF those States from Ontario and the result would be
despair. Give free access 10 the markets and re-
move all barriers TO trade and the value OF every
farIn IN ontario II Increased within one year.
biography alone makes the formation OF con.
solidated nation within the boundaries OF Canada
Impossible. II a man should start from Halifax for
Toronto in a straight line he would make three
fourths OF the journey through the territory Of the
United states, lie would traverse the States OF
II he should start for Montreal IN straight line
two-thlrds Of the Journey would be on American
soil. II he should start from ST. John, n. b., for
Toronto, nine-tenths of the journey would be on
American soil The dennltion OF the Dominion OF
Canada stated accurately Is this: "A collection Of
splendid Provinces, without any natural identity
with each other aud destroying themselves and re-
tardlng their progress by trying In vain 10 form
uni0n.n
The separasi pollcy-that Is the policy Of trying to
form nationality OF the dlsjoDed and scattered
Provinces OF British North America cut of from the
rest OF the contlnent-is paipaDle failure. We can
forgive the sentiment which prompted the expert
lnent, or the disappointment which its inevitable
failure may have occaHloned; but we can have but
poor respect for the enlightened statesman who
would shut his eyes TO the planest facts, and
counsel The preparation OF the folly In the name OF
patriotism.
The people OF every part OF this Dominion are
more identified with their own continent than witt
any other portion OF the globe. They cannot, II
they would, shake themselves clear OF their mani
fest destiny. Whatever the past may have beeD for
the future no section OF Europe can be TO the people
OF Canada what the sixty millions-soon TO be hun
dfeds OF milllons-of enlightened, free. and pro-
gTesslye Englisspeaklng people OF the other half OF
North America must be. Politicians may conIure by
appeals 10 sentiment to-day; but the verdict OF to-
morrow will shatcr all mock ideals and give place
10 lnvncible realities. Is this treason? Then John
Bright is traitor. Toward the close Of 1861 that
eminent public man, speaking OF the proposition
that would be better that the continent OF North
America be divided up into q number OF separate
states, as Is the continent OF Europe, used these