The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-11-16
, NO. FL DEER LODGE, MONTANA, NOVEMBER Is, 1888

the whole Of them in a laundering chorus, to
toe evident delight, if not to the edification,
OF the strangers in the gallery. One Of the
sights of the imperial parliament i, to see a
DIVISION taken, but at Ottawa you are in
vlted to hear ono as well, and such was nv
experience when the veteran premier Of the
Dominion, next to whom sat, at Sir Charles
Iupper's dinner, urged me to hasten my steps
from the dining room lest should miss this
unique exhibition Of legislative harmony.
Sir Charles Tupper has had a brilliant DO
litical career, and his success as legislator
Is attested by the many important acts which
ne introduced and carried through the legis-
lature OF Nova Scotia ut an early period of
his public life, and still more by those with
which his name is associated in the federal
parliament at Ottawa. He iuaugurated the
movement for the union Of the maritime
provinces in 1864, and was instrumental in
securing the union of Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick with Canada in 1866. In the fed
erh parliament he carried the act prohibit
ing the sale or manufacture of intoxicating
liquors int he Northwest Territory Of Canada;
the consolidated railway act of 1879; the act
granting charter to the Canadian Pacific
Railway company in 1881, and in the last
session Of parliament he carried tho act by
which the monopoly previously granted to
the Canadian Pacific railway was abolished.
The appointment Of Canadian as British
minister at Washington would emphasize tho
importance to be attached to the controversy
still pending between the United States and
the Dominion, and might have the best re-
suits in promoting q better understanding
between the two peoples Such an appoint
ment would be handsome acknowledge
by Great Britain of the loyalty of her
leading colony and could not fail to be
gratifying to Canadians of all parties.
But will Great Britain depart 50 far
from the beaten path Of precedent in order
to consult Canadian pride or to promote
Canadian interestss It is very doubtful.
Lord Salisbury will not be wanting in ad-
visers who will tell him that such step
would be altogether irregular and even inn
proper, and some needy aristocrat ignorant
Of the ways of the Americans and Canadians
may be preferred to man thoroughly versed
in public affairs and possessed Of that practi-
cal good sense and sound experience which
are the first requisites for success in dealing
with the people of this continent. Howsoever
statesmen may differ or partisans quarrel, i be-
lieve the American and Canadian peoples are
drawing closer to each other every day, and
that there will be union of hearts if not of
territories Their interests are intermingled
and destined to be, at no distant day, in
separable, and the bond Of q common Ian
guage and common literature will survive
when political divisions have been obliterated
and political unions have lost their signi-
fcance. The fitness of Sir Charles Tupper to
take a leading part in promoting the friendly
relations Of the two countries is shown by
the admirable manner in which he avoided
trap similar in every respect to that into
which Lord Sackville fell He, too, was in
vited to oexpress an opinion on the presidential
election, but he quickly informed his cor
respondent that in his position it would be
entirely too delicate matter for him to in
terfere in the politics Of this great nation.
OCoNEon POWER.