The Portland daily press., 1888-11-15

Lord Stanley of Preston, the Queens Vic
eroy in Canada, gives the cold shoulder to
the doctrines of commercial union, recipr0-
city and annexation to the United States.
people talk of annexation" said he in
speech to a delegation of French Canadian
citizens at Ottawa Monday, land various
other cries Of the political world. The mon
archical constitution gives us complete au.
tonomy without obliging MS every four years
to be subject to those violent oscillations of
politics like those which just now have dis
turbed the business of our neighbors in the
United States, and under the external form
OF republic ii would be impossible to find
more complete expression of the sentiment
and of the wishes of citizens than you find
today with us. Do not, therefore gentle
men. listen to those who would endeav0r to
disturb you. We know very well the object
Oh such intrigues. Let us remain tranquil"
The representative of the Queen, if he said
anything on the subject, could say nothing
else. But there is no doubt that Lord Stan
ley spoke the more readily because of the ag-
itation of the question of Canada's future in
the United States and England at the present
time. Senator Sherman has boldly pro-
claimed his belief that closer relations with
Canada are desirable and has set the limit of
ten years within which union, commercial or
political, will be brought about. In Eng
land the leading statesmen are studying
means whereby Canada and other colonies
may be perpetually welded to the Empire.
Ia a speech at Glasgow last month Lord
Brassey, who has travelled and observed the
position of the colonial dependencies of
Great Britain more carefully probably than
any other living Englishman, made the rela-
tlons of Canada and the United States the
main point of an elaborate speech. He ar
gued that the con. mercial connection of Can
ada with the United States would imply the
adoption of q hostile tariff against Great
Britain. Such tariff would make England
less disposed than at present to defend Can
ada. Hence he argued that commercial
union with the United States would lead to
separation from the mother country. An
nexation to the United States would be the
next step. step which in Lord Brassey's
opinion would mean certain ruin to the rls-
ing industries of Canada. On the other
hand Imperial connections, in his judg-
ment, would enable Canada to raise the
loans required to develop her resources on
terms which could not be obtained were she
an independent and foreign state or a part
OF the American Union; and would give her
greater security on account of the sustaining
strength Of the Imperial navy. 1t cannot be
said that this leading champion of an Impe-
rial Federation of England and her colonies
makes out strong set of reasons. Why
Should Canada wish to remain with Eng
land, since the United States is far ADLER
Tran England both to defend and develop
Country situated as Canada is? But the at
tention which he gives the subject marks the
fact that the English are watching critically
and anxiously the growth of popular senti-
ment on this subject both in Canada aud the
United States. Lord Stanley : advice to the
delegation at Ottawa was not perfunctory: it
was rather an echo of the conservative and
dominating forces of the British Empire.