Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-10-30
Shall We Have Have Canada?
a LEADING DOMINION POLITICIAN
FAvoRs ANNEXATION
AS 0ANADA's SALVATION.
One of Sir John Wacdonald's Heavy
weights Tells Why and How Our
Northern Neighbors. should Join
Their Country to Ours.

chOuid oOlh M
Their Country to Ours.
OTTAWA, Oct. 29.-The great Conserv-
alive, Mr.. Scion L.. Smith, ex M. p,
enc of the big guns in Sir John Macdon-
aids campaign, ONE out squarely for
annexation as Canada's only salvation.
This is what Mr.. Smith said when asked:
You think Canada's destiny is to be-
come part and parcel of the American
Republicfn
Most undoubtedly that is the way we
are drifting, and some kind of a union is
inevitable. AS matters now stand we
are met with constant elbowing by the
United States officials. Business tran s.
actions are impeded and a feeling of hos
tilfty in general prevails. Commercial
union, to my mind, is in~adequate; it must
be an entire n complete union of the
two countries on an equitable basis.
That accomplished, Canadians would, /
am certain, rise to the foremost position
in the grand republic ef North America.
We are no inferior to the American peo-
pie in either push, enterprise, or brains,
as is proven by the fact that some of the
most important and wealthy citizens of
the American Union are Canadians. We
are not popping our great northwest, as
was expected, simply because emigration
is diverted from Canada on account of our
being under the monarchical form of
| government.
NThere We're IN, 0s4 natives of Canada
in the United States in 1880. The mum
Der must now considerably exc eed
1000, 900.
Immigrants from the Old World leave
for the United States to escape the tyran-
ny of monarchical governments, and
naturally eschew Canada upon learning
that the form of government here is the
same as in England. A union with the
United States would turn the tide of
emigration To Canada. Our spendid
country would be peopled. Our popula-
tion of l, 200, 900 would be increased
three-fold, capital would be invested,
and the grand natural resources of the
country, which are now lying idle to a
great extent, would be developed, land
property would double in valued and
the country become the most prosperous
portion of the greatest republic ever in
the word. Would not Canadians benefit
by this more than by continuing in their
present struggling existence, separated
from q Baton with ,7i.pm they sympa-
thize 81 rHyith whom Shey have many
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airy boundary and customs barrier? By
Throwing in u lot with the American
Union u national debt of, $500, 900, 900,
which is a heavy burden to this country,
increasing from year to year. would be
removed from our shoulders and CONSOLE
dated with the small debt of the great
republic. We would have the same
prospects as the American people, the
same advantages, and cur national char
acter is such that Canadians would soon
rise to positions of eminence in the
union.
ENGLAND must recognize that Canada
Is bound at some time in the future to be
annexed to the United States las surely
as Scotland was to England and / claim
that England would be u gamer by such
a union. AT present there is [more or
3less] a feeling of hostility between the
American republic and England, and
Canada is the bone OF contention. Zone
reason is that she is the asylum of our
defaulters, embezzlers, boodlers, and
rogues whom she refuses to deliver up to
Justice.l Now, if union is inevitable,
England, by gracefully submitting,
would gain the good will of the Amer
lean people. There would be. a grand
confederation of all Notwithstanding
people of the earth. England, instead
of having Canada a weak dependency re-
curing assistance, and in case of trouble
to be greedily devoured by the Amer
lean eagle at any time, would have the
cooperation, sympathy, and as
sistance of 10000, 900 English
speaking people of the entire
North American continent. [Soon to be
100000, 000.l There is no doubt about
1t. The same blood runs in the veins of
the Canadians, Americans, and English
people. We are one in everything that
goesto make up a grand confederacy,
and the ill feeling which now exists be-
tween h American republic and the
English nation is all caused by Canada.
Who knows but that the whole Ameri-
can continent might in timecall England
mother country, treat her as a mother
country, n be her source of strength
in times of her national weaknessP TShe
VIII AVE to do justice to Ireland first
a regards the terms the American
people should take us just as we are,
allow us tooretain local government,
legal codes, courts, school system. and
all those privileges of local government
we now enjoy. This is all practicable,
as there is a greater difference between
a. state government of New York and
Omaha than there is between the state
government of New York and the local
government of Ontario.n
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