New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-28

tinental railroads for the internal traffic Oh TIE
United States between our Pacific Coast ports ana
points east of the Mississippi and Missouri LIVES
A steamer line having in view mainly I'm.
pcriai interests,D was started early IN the year
1887, between the western terminus Q, 'ne or,s in
China and Japan. The commerce Of British Column
bin and OF the entire Dominion OF Canada Win
Asia would not sustain any such line ii run upon
commsrcial nr;nciples in competition with ex-
listing unsubsidized transportation nnse vs W" the
Suez Canal, or via San Francisco anu 9'S. .S
transconiiucntal railroads Of the United states
R"t The R,;tisb Government and the Canadian Gov
ernment have adopted this Canadian line as an
the Isytcp Government. the British Parliament now
has before il proposition recommended 10y . .he
present Salisbury 1 Is 0 OF the as
annual subsidy Of s45,0oo, the Dominion Gov
eminent having already agreed TO grant to " o an
additional ai @ object w Fl sh In. in
tended TO subscrvc is thus described by Sir George
Stephen, president Of the Canadian Paoi9c h haib
of'Msv. 1887: Negotiations are in progress
With the Imperial Government for the establish,
Vancouver and China and Japan and the I'm
perial interests involved in this question are 80
important that there can be no doubt OF sao,s
factory result" This is the utterance OF psacti
cal business man, speaking with =" q mlnd li,un1l.
mated by the sense Of official responsibility 10
double system of subsidies, viz, Postal subsidies
and Admiralty subsidies. The total amount OF the
latter, and how they are extended is o'''e Soo"
SUBSIDIZED STEAMER Lines
There is no expedient for the promotion OF BTU
ish trade or for the consolidation OF the Brush
Empire more highly approved by British states
men than the establishment Of subsidized steamer
lines England not only protects infant enter
priscs of this description, but she takes them 10
her bosom and feeds them. Such scheme OF pro-
lection is of the vc7y antithesis OF any'hne
which, according TO the ordinary significance Oh
terms, can be called free trade 1t is simply
m autocratic method of turning trade OUT OF inc
channels which o free competition would marx
out for it. The relative magnitude OF the COM
pcrcial interests Immediately involved are APP
proxmately indicated by the fact that the Pacihc
Coast population of the United States Is ABOUT
175o. 600 and that of British Columbia only about
10000.
The merits Of the postal features OF the case
are indicated by the fact that the United States
raid during the year ended June 80, 1884, 1or
carving the mails in this service the total sum
Of si4.s2O so, as against $500 900 to be palo LOT
the establishment of the new line at uhe horVh'
which is but the extension of the Canadian Pacic
route to Asia As the United States mails across the
Pacific are at least twenty times as large as those Of
.ho Canadian line. the aid extended to the latter
i upon the basis Of postal service at least 400 times
os rreat rs that extended to the former The I'M
mediate commercial object had in view IS tue Oh
version of the China and JAPAN trace OIL Sn'c"ct
ST. Paul Minneapolis Duluth MiiwaGRee Na W.
Iouis Cipcirnati. Baltimore, Phladephla, new,
Yor,, and Boston from our Eastern trunk inss ana
franscontinental railroads, and from hmerica,'
ocean steamer lines, and Paclhc COAST polts, m
readv tho Canadian line has succeeded IN dlNeIthg
about AZ per cent of our Pacific Coast TEA trace.
The case RS il stands is that the Canadian Gov
eminent hes thrown the full force OF
of the Canadian Pacific Railway. and OF an annuI
subsidy of $500, coo to a British ocean steamer
line for the purpose Of divertlng an important
brancb ~ our foreign commerce from American 20
Pritish TRANSFORMATION lines and trade centres ana
that too with the special object in view OF pro pro
noting imperial objects on this continent ins
eudacitv of the scheme would be astounding II 10
were not British. We must protect American IN
teress against such protection OF Brt'sh interests;
One of The reasons assigned In the Declaration OIL
Independence for the creation of new nation was
That the King Of Great Britain had given his assent
10 legislation for cutting OF our trade VIII an
The Lth Congress Of the United States II IL
shall adjourn without some expression OF dissent
10 British scheme to accomplish BIZ artlilce wnat
our Revolutionary forefathers 1l2 years ago de-
cared should net be done by force and for the
support of which declaration they mutually
pledged TO each ether their lives. their fortunes
and their sacred honor"
MILITARY FEATURES OF IMPERIAL SCHEMES.
The military adjuncts Of the Canadian scheme
for the promotion of Imperial Confederation have
net been neglected. In S63 the Duke Of New
castle recommended that naval station Should
be established in British Columbia. Such an es-
Enlistment has since been provided, by the Colo
NAL Dominion and British Governments at Is
oumault, on Vancouver Island, within sight of
the United States and already it has become n
place Of rendezvous for the British fleet In the
Pacific Ocean This Imperial Naval Station has q
dry-dock constructed at q cost of about $500 OOO'
and it has recently been connected with the coal
mines at Nanaimo by railroad built expressly for
that purpose The Dominion Government has
a.. I'd i1-n If a liberal
land grant in aid Of the construction OF this line
No other nation than Great Britain well under
stands the relation Of subsidies to commerce. or of
guns to commerce Captain Celomb, an English
army officer and writer Of repute, said OF Esqu!-
uault in 1870, 1t would hold pistol to the
head of San Francisco" In a speech delivered at
Victoria in October 1885, Lord LansdOwne the
present Govcrnor-General Of Canada spoke OF
Esquimault as a naval station likely to become
one of the greatest and most important strong
holds Of the Empire
fierce advocate of Imperial Confederation In
the Westminster Review" Of February, 1855
speaks Of Esquimault as place Of concourse for
the fleets Of that hemisphere, eyre Of Imperial
outlook, and a stronghold for defence and commu-
nication.. He also declares that the days
of vast organizations, great empires. and great
wars have still to come" and almost in
the same breath recommends in the in
terests Of peace and civilization naturalization
Of the 5000 miles of frontier between the United
States and Canada rendering Notifications use
less.' Such elastic views would seem to entltle
this vigorous writer at once to honorary member
ship of the British Peace Society and of Lord
Roseberys league for advancing Great Britain to
the commercial and military supremacy Of the
world, of which league Sir John A. Macdonald is
proud TO be member.
The British Army and Navy Gazette" re-
Gently stated that when the guns now on the way
to Esquimaut shall have been mounted it will
be one of the most heavily armoFed posts on the