New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-02
THE ANNEXATION OF CANADA.
SENATOR SHERMAN WARMLY FAvORS 1T.
AN INTERESTING TALK FROM HIM ON LIVE
POLITICAL TOPIC.

AN INTERESTING TALK FROM HIM ON LIVE
POLITICAL TOPIC
From an interview IN The New-York sun.
My belief in tho future common destipJ OF v .no
two Engiish.speahng nations OF America has meyer
vavered / was led TO form u by my failure 70 , n,,a
less radical Tensey .Si the Two Countries
fisheries dispute and tho question OF INC rsht %, Ia
ara vDe Of dis putes that have vexcd the two nations
for century and will continue to disturb the IN 80 80
long the present conditions as ~ bc foner
studied the faf IT %as 9soy
Would be acceptable to the Dominion but would never
be be too SSTseG By RsSRd Offer the %
.s on, for .na,tS ss market rat q
what our people look at II is of no use to discus
the theoretical advantages Of reclprocy ne aY as
we'll 10 dlsm!s. cd at orre 49,, ...,,o.,,or, with
The OF ge' are and " OBJ
vious II less Immediate they will be even greater
n the long At the outset we shs aa ad "a tonr
teen hundred mllon-a mere bagatelIe-in return i9r
which we shall not only add FIVE million to our aaH
public works. whose tho is now in the Dominion
Govemment, railroads. canals, public building 10TH
considering in comparison the future advantages
to the American Republic from We the oreses
these any more Adequately than the America ans
Of time say the Wealth. yilue ID
oped resources aud Industrial possibilities Of the great
British Northwest are even yet only a IT'S s' pro
population is probably below the reality that union
with the American Republic, free connection WIN
American railroads. and opening to American 1c m mil
grafton and enterprise would ay reveal and wh'cn Will
political advanages Of the union Sah are
transit sit and canal tolls These and other occasions
of border dispute would be removed, and the most
gravo provocative OF dispute and irritation taken our
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tlngent difficulty Of an unscentifc, because purely
artificial. unduly extended and wholly ndefensibe
frontier would disappear with the constant vexaon
Of commercial dis pufes Consolidation would establish
and perpeuatc the peace of the American continent
contribute the peace Of the world by removing the
most sensitive occasion of war with European power,
dominion upon the Western continent In this sense
It would be advantage to Great Britain, as well as
and Useless dependeDcy and gain absolute political
security in part OF the world where she has every
The Commercial and social ties between the two
countries are very close, and growing more intimate
the OF American capital in Canada and tho
Immigration Of native Canadians into the o nni ned
of American money IS locked up In Canadian rail-
roads mines and Industrial and commercial enter ter
are now living in the United states and this does
not OF course, take into account the thousands OF
European emigrants who come here after brief and
Improbable soiourn in the Dominion This exchange
constantly, and knitting closer every year the ties OF
common interest and social kinshlp The truth OF
this Is revealed In the actual state OF feeling In
Canada. 800
There arc two exceptions to the general willing
ness Of the Canadian people 10 entertain the notion
of political consolidation with the United States One
Is official and the other clerical 1t is not quite ae
curato to say that the Tory party is opposed to po
zeal union This IS true OF the Tories of the official
circle the Ministers OF Tho Dominion Government and
their suboriinates, the place holders Of tho central
administration, which would be destroyed by absorb
ton in the United states. Consolidation IS not a
party ques ton in Canada mono than IL Is In the
United states, although the accident that the central
Government which would be destroyed by II, Is Con-
servatve and that Of the Provincial Govern;
mens, which have nothing to lose BY Il, are Liberal
makes Il appear The strongest, best grounded and
most lasting opposition will come from the French
Catholic Church in the Province Of Quebec, which en-
Joys valuable privileges under the Dominion Govern
ment, incompatible with the American political sys-
tom. Quebec will be the last fortress Of assistance
10 consolidation. 1t is question Of religion or
rather Of religious privileges not one OF race The
French Canadians are conspicuously loyal to the
Crown unfriendly 10 tho United States. They have
furnished the bulk OF the immigrants from Canada
into New England, and adapt themselves easily to
American political ideas. But they cling to their
Church privileges, and will surrender them reluct-
antly. These privileges the price of their ad-
heslon to the Dominion. They Will not be willing To
bargain less shrewdly with the United States.