The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-06
POLITICAL UNION.
The Ties of Common Interest Knit
ting Closer Every Year
In the Bond of Union the Two Great
Nations OF America.
Commercial Reciprocity only IlIusOr,
and Impsacticabls.
Absorption by the Republic is Can
ads Ultimate Destiny.

NEW YORK, Dec. IA Washington
correspondent of the New York Sun
sends the following to his paper: Our
northwest neighbor, the rebellious
Manitoba, on the line of railroad con-
nection between the eastern and west
ern provinces of Canada, is deeply in
terested in the project of political con-
soiidation with the dominion. She is
discussing it eagerly. L send herewith
opinions of Senator Sherman. Their
present interest lies in the current as
sumption that MIR. Sherman will be
President Harrison's secretary of state.
An interview with General Wilson
in the Sun of last Sunday ends with
this SIGNIFICANT sentence: students
of politics and Vublic questions will OBJ
serve that the time is ripe in America
for the appearance of Bismarck; that
is to say, of a statesman keen enough
to foresee the ripening tendencies OF
kindred nations toward consolidation
upon an imperial scale; bold enough tc
declare his faith in the destiny made
manifest to his foresight; strong
enough to mould and direct the vague
desires and blind movements OF
aspiration, and the ferment
ing tendencies towards union
into a complete achievement, an &C
complished fact | don't want to PLAY
the part of the voice crying in the viii
derness and hail the appearance o.
such a man with undue precipitation
but the significance of the fact can es
cape nobody that by far the most capa
BILE. experienced ami trusted Eolitlca
leader in the United States by the re
tirement from public life of Mr.. Blaine
stands in the very fore front of tn
movement to unite the political desti
MES of Canada and the United
States. Senator Sherman was the frs
American prominent in public life t
adopt and declare the belief that the III
innate destiny of the two nations ar
common; that no other solution can b
found for questions constantly arising
between them. In course of an hour
talk with Senator Sherman, Whose
general drift and bearing l have hi!
full authority to convey to you,
learned that his views on this subJec
have gained strength and definitenes
with lapse of time. Said he:
my belief in the futur
common destiny of the two Englisl
speaking nations of America has neve
wavered. l was led to form it by m
failure to find a less radical remed!
| for the perennial occasions of seriOu
dispute between the two counties
The fisheries dispute and the question
| of free transit of American good
over Canadian railroads are type O
the disputes that have veXed the tw'
| nations for a century and Will con
| tinue to disturb them so long as tn
present condition exists. To get rid
these questions we must get rid OF tn
frontier. i studied the proposal fC
1 nl V-nninrnaifu nY1V IN ko cnU
| Yinced that it was illusOry and in
practicable. Political union is aDOti
er thing. The advantages il Offer
are more equal. Canada would gal
all the advantages reciprocity promise
her. The advantages of political col
sc lidation with Canada to the Unite
states are no less paIpable and obviou
If less immediate they will be eve
greater in the long rul
The political advantages -
the union are emphasized by the pre-
transit and canal tolls. These and OF
er occasions of border dispute would
removed and the most grave prOcatiN
of dispute ana irritation taken out {
our diplomatic relations. The Cor
mercial and social ties between til
two countries are very close, and grow
ing more intimate every year. Two il
pOrtant points of contract are the i
Vestment of American capital in Cal
ada and the immigration of nati'
Canadians into the United States.
is estimated that at least $100. O00, o.
of American money is locked up
Canadian railroads, mines. and indu
trial and commercial enterprises
various kinds. On the other hand, I'll
census shows that a million person
born in Canada are now living in Il
United States. This does not,
course, take into account Il
thousands of European immigran
who come here after Il brief and u
profitable sOjourn in the dominic
This exchange of capital f
labor of men for money,
going on constantly, knittiI g closer al
closer every year the ties of CONNIE
interest and social kinship. The tru
of this is revealed in the actual sta
of feeling in Canada. l know som
thing about that, as have lately tr
, versed the Dominion from Montreal
Victoria. There is growing convi
ton among thinking people there tn
, the future destiny of Canada is its a
sorption by the American republi
strengthening as one goes westwa
, until it amounts in Manitoba to
clamorous, hardly to be denied, aspir
ton. The strongest, best grounded al
most lasting opposition will come fro
the French Catholic church in the pI
vince of Quebec, which enjoys valu
bic privileges under the Dominion 90
J eminent Incompatible with the AmS
lean political system.