The Hawaiian gazette., 1885-06-10
Imperial Federation

| EDITOR GAZETTE In your late article on "Impe
| RAJ Federation some misleading statements con
cernlng canada are the more remarkable in view
| OF the superior information usually displayed In
discussion of kindred topics.
| h'gGrdtHg population: Canada, instead of con.
tanning nearly 4,0OO,00O' inhabitants, contains
JSIly o,VOoOOO The official census of April LIST
1881 showed over four and a half millions includ-
ing Newfoundland (l4G, $50, which is in reality n
| portion of the country, and will soon be 81.
technically. The same ratio of increase from q >
O'Oi,o2l as curing the previous ten years would
make nearly 5OOOOO0; but, MS a matter of fact the
increase has been prOportiOnay much greater
Tor the following reasons among Others: ia ! He
hrst three years of the present decade were nm.
usually prosperous IN Canada, and the immigra-
ton from Europe exceptionally large: Cbl The
opening up of the Great North West, and the con
structlon of the Canadian Pacific Railway, have
contributed to retaining within her down borders
tnousands OF the young men, who previously mi
grated to the United States An official renort of
the British Minister at Washington to DOWNING
street. some time SINCE stated that over rs 900 Cana
9lahs mostly Young mem had left their country
ior permanent homes In the United States in tb,,
single year 1879 Yet, notwithstandinvly snch a
urain' the Dominion added three quarters of a
million TO her population in that decade Canada
@ useu 70 oe called the breeding ground of the Anne
rlcan States; but now the Canadians have a conn
try OF their own larger than he Upited States and
IN the valleys of the Red River and the Saskat
chewan alone, they have opened up n fertile terri
eols edsny capable OF sustaining population
Russia. s'''e
Regarding Imperial Fege,ution: Althouch vour
hypotheses are in the main correct no such con
cluslon can justly be drawn from them 10 iiIns
trate: During the American Civil war. ore,. ~
~ ~ H1''re Canadians served in the onion armies
Mhole nelghborhoods were depopulated of their
SOuhS mem Ihe wrlter-as boy who had waited
Two years To grow big enough to pass n rnustering
olhcef, enlisted for the war; during the third
year oi It's contlnuance-the youngest trooper in
SHe Leglinent and after two bloody campaigns in
y, ,nellila served third in the Indian war on the
fIalns-tne company IN which he served helm,
about one-half Canadians. The severity If ths |
service may be judged from the fact that after |
taking part in Sherdans great battle of Wlncbes |
astai ,el slis tSlent lZlst n u Cavalry which had
passed the Potomac fifteen months prey1otIsIv |
Win !zOO rank and file, besides field staff and |
me, was broken up and sent to n recruitinO |
camp reported unfit for service" by Sheridan's !
AZ! ,Ti with but q officers and men
tqt- lhe columns in tho official reports under
nea9ings Killed, wounded, = Captured - 'smiss
lnG' (Which usually meant AndersonyiIle and
SLOW death, or quicker death from the bullets Of
Oohcealed bushwhackers of MoSby's or Gilmore-s
SuerilllS died in hospital .discbaroe,l FOR al
story Ne N'''iioe Vi tue
But because Canada gave $1,000 men 70 ,I...
nion nrmies, does she want annexationY Ger
tnnly not. Or because she gave 1000 to Ene,lorJ /
1uflhg tue Cnmean war, and 400 royggeu,,s for |
service on the Nile, does she want Federation? If
g'g @ alsuueht oe correct IN the latter case for
Inc explanation Is that Canadians are A military
ace y Is safe to say, tnat in proportion 10 num-
'ers ana circumstances, no men ever gave better
'srFlce to their flag than the 5000 WIN had
,uare, beneath foreign sky, in cutting Inc Cor.
nan Knot OF Southern slavery With Nortbmanis
,laae; Ihe whole history of Canada-vbetber a.
new france, or under British Suprrmacv-bss
'een weighted with deeds of incompatible achieve
nent; from the earliest Indian wars till the tri-
oior gave place to the meteor flag of Englan5i,
!, u tne flains of Abraham: and since the death of
! ore through the terrible scenes of the rsvoln
ion, ion, ana the war of 1Sl2-15. Lower Canada
Vueoecl was founded by race of Cavaliers-tbe
est and oravest of France. Upper Caneda Or
arlol was founded by the United Empire IoSaI.
- whose name and fame though in the lic,ht ~
lstoEy perhaps earned in an unjust cause viii
yer remain the admiration of the world. "'i'
but the TACT Is that an intense tgfiov,l sr;r;t
eINaoe ano predominates the Canada of TO-DAY 1
eoeEauon Is no new scheme. II has baSr
reached by ambitions tuft-hunters hunory Mas
oiders' and the incumbents of imperiai tin-,,
tles, ior the past century. But the idea 4 -
npopaiar with the masses; SO much 10 that so,,s ,
the most noted public men in Canada bavs [
ltnin few years refused titles and decoratia a
om the Queen. lest II might be construed int ~,
cqulescence IN the Federation project psomni ,
atea cniefly by that class Of British stafesnaen