St. Paul daily globe., 1888-02-10
Canadian Sentiment Upon the
Point Of Being Snapped
ASundeP.
Manitoba Farmers Compare
Their Condition With Farm
ers Of This Country.
A Great Injustice Being Done
to the Old Soldiers Of the
Late War.
White Cloud Objects to the
Agreement Made With the
Commission.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WINNIPEG, Man., Feb. 9.-A great and
growing feeling of dependency is rap
idly developing here, owing to the per-
siStency of the Dominion government in
their ruin0us policy. At present, con-
sequent upon the total inability of the
railroad to carry grain out of the cOun-
try, business is at stand sill through
out the province. Farmers cannot dis
pose of their grain and cannot pay the
stOrekeepers, who in turn cannot pay
their wholesalers. Little or no money
is in circulation and great feeling
OF discomfort prevails. Disloyal talk is
heard in all quarters and if a
radical change is not made in
the policy there will either be rebel
lion here or a large exodus. Already
many influential citizens have left the
country with curse. Others are pre-
pairing to follow and gloomy outlook
is before the province unless some
change is speedily made. Ex-Attorney
General Hamilton, who leaves in few
days for the states, in an interview to-
day said he had come here at time
when apparently there was a bright
future before the province. AS far as
he could see there were no natural bar
riers to progress here, and he could not
help admitting that
UNDER DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES
and proper management the result
would have been otherwise. Winnipeg
was no better, and he questioned if it
was as good as it was year ago. The
province had otmade the progress that
it might have made if properly man.
aged. The glowing pictures of popula-
ton and progress had not been realized.
1t was not for him to say why. The
facts remained, and spoke for them
selves. If he could do as well here as
he hoped to do in st. Paul, and as hum
dredS of Canadians were doing in the
states, he would not turn his back upon
his native country. Commenting upon
the saying of the board of trade that
sentiment was the only tie which bound
Manitoba to the Dominion, and that
must soon break, if the Dominion gov
eminent persists in its mad policy, the
leading paper to-day said: ''How long
is the sentiment OF Canadian citizenship
likely to bear the burden Of monopoly,
discrimination and legalized robbery
without breaking? When the board OF
trade of Manitoba propounds such a
question it is time for the Dominion
government to pause in it's course and
consider the effects which its monopoly
policy is causing. When such body as
the board of trade feel bound to warn
the Dominion government that its policy
cannot continue much longer without
SWAPPING ASUNDER EVERY TIE
that now binds us to the Dominion, it is
time for Sir John Macdonald and col
leagues to consider whether, after all,
their supposed enlightened policies are
not madness itself, and whether their
so-called blessings to Northwest Canada
are not series of blighting curses,
each one more destructive than the
first. When the men of Manitoba to a
man unite in declaring that Canadian
sentiment is upon the point of being
rudely snapped, and when they fall to
thinking of the prosperity of thousands
of Canadians in the United States, and
comparing it with their own wretchedly
deplOrable condition. stamped deeper
and deeper into earth under the nailed
heel of monopoly, it is time for the
Dominion government to pause in its
frightful onset of miSgovernment.
which is bound to drive out of this
country all men of spirit and inde-
pendence as fast as they enter it. The
men at Ottawa have
HAD MANY WARNINGS.
They were warned by resolutions
passed by the Farmers union. They
were warned when all members of the
legislature, Conservative and Liberal.
unanimously condemned the monopoly.
They have been warned year after year
at Ottawa. Their friends in this prov
ince have again and again implored
them to reconsider their policy. Pow
erful press throughout Canada has
sought to awaken them to a realization
of what is inevitable. The census re-
turns have admOnished them. They
are familiar with the public discomfort
prevailing here. They know that their
petted monopoly is a monstrOuS engine
relentless inquisitor, and that they
themselves are responsible for inioui-
ties which their monopoly policy en-
ables it to visit upon the people. And
now they have another warning, more
serious than any which have preceded
it. Let them heed it ere it is too late.
The feeling which exists is one of ut
most evaporation, and is getting
strength daily. Hundreds of COM
plants come in daily of the impossi-
bility of farmers procuring cars to
m arket their grain.''
ANOTHER VAIL.