, 1888-06-21
BRUSH Imperialism.

Concerning Imperialism the New
York Tribune writes that 1t Is apo
IitIcal machine on wheels. Tie Con
federation includes, says our New
York contemporary, Il series OF thin
ly-populated provinces, whose nat
urai markets and commercial inter
ests are centeren in the States of the
American union adjoining them on
South. Iu order to connect the
provinces artifciallY with one an
other, two railways have been built
across the continent, from Halifax TO
Vancouver, at the expense of the
Dominion Government ranging be
tween S135,0O0,0c0 and Sl55, ,000,0 600
These subsidies have converted the
Dominion into political railway
corporation, conducted in the inter-
est of the British Empire At each
terminus there are to be subsidized
lines Of steamers connecting Halifax
with Liverpool and Vancouver with
China, Japan and Australia. For
the Pacific line an annual mail sub
sidy of 100000 is to be paid By Eng
land and Canada. The subsidized
railways and subsidized steamers
are TO serve as connecting links in
the Worldwide system of British 20
sessions and to promote the political
objects of Imperialism; and they are
expected to accomplish these objects
mainly at the expense of the United
States. The Canadian Pacific has
already diverted from American rail
ways an enormous share of the trade
of the Pacific coast, and the Vancou-
yer steamers will compete directly
with American steamers in the China
trade. At the same time Great brit
ian Is
BUILDING AND FORTIFYIHG AT EsXUIMALT
On Vancouver island, a naval station
and rendezvous, which, in the
words of an English officer, is des-
tined TO hold a pistol to the head of
San Francisco" Continuing adds
the Tribune, this Is the situation
which Mr.. Nimmo describes with
characteristic vigor in the admiratls ;
letter printed ON another page. If
Americans are ignorant of what is
going on along the northern border,
under the guise OF imperialism, the
Canadian and English Governments
are not blind to their own interests.
Those Governments are bent upon
forcing Americans to pay the run
mnS expenses of these political rail
ways and transportation lines. The
weight of that subsidy of SI30.00O, 600
expended in the construction of the
Canadian Pacific, and of that adii-
honal annual subsidy Of S30O,0OO
pad to the Vancouver steamers, has
been thrown against American rail-
ways and American commerce.
Trade Is to be diverted on land and
sea; the American transcontinental
railways are to be indiscriminateIv
plundered, and British Columbia,
WITH population of 10000, is to be-
come tue seabOard and port OF eutry
of the Pacific States with their popn-
iation of l l,75O,O00. This assault up
on American cOmmerce-this aggres-
sive campaign of British Imperial-
ism, ,lhas been begun and is continued
with the AID and support of the Dem
ocratic Administrators at Washing
ton. The Canadian Pacific has been
aNiiiIl'btN " All tlie privileges OF the
tr' nsit trade by order of Secretary
Fairchild American steamship lines
have been robbed of the beggarly ap-
preparation made for mail service.
while the Vancouver line alone has
been guaranteed a subsidy of $780,
600 annually from England and
Canada The Administration will do
nothing for
AMERICAN TRANSFORMATION INTERESTS
on land or sea. Il viii do anything
and everything for foreign Subsidized |
corporations. Mr.. Nimmo's clear
presentation of this subject ought
not to be without effect at Washing
ton. Legislation 10 defence of Amer |
ical interests imperilled 10y these
graspins foreign monopolies urgently
needed. Something should be done |
at once TO meet tnis audaciUus at
tempt on the part of Can da TO divert |
the China and Japan trade and the
of the Pacific states. a !