San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-15
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MONTREAL, Feb. IA cable dis
! patch from London to the Montreal
Gazette, the Canadian government or
gan saws, Statements have reached
! the Journal here through New York,
that syndicate of leading republic
| cans in the United States, controls
six hundred million dollars, which it
intends to use in the effort to secure
| Canada's annexation 70 the states, by
a system of wholesale bribery in Can
ada, in the event of the dissolution of
the Dominion parliament this year,
and a consequent general election"
The inspired idiot who stood spon-
sor for the birth of that news item
must have had it bad. 1t is not the
first of the kind that has made its APP
pearance in the columns of English
journals, and until English idiots are
dead it will not be the last. The yarn
is most improbable, and so utterly at
variance with all responsible utter
ances on the Canadian annexation
question as TO induce surprise that
any respectable journal should give
credence to it. The United States
has not so much to gain by anneXa-
ton as Canada has and, therefore, is
not, naturally, as anxious for annexa-
ton as is Canada. The initial prOpo-
sition for annexation will necessarily
come from Canada and not from the
United States.
Bribing Canadian voters to return
aneXatiOnists to parliament that they
may vote annexation is as improbable
as is the story of the "brick MOON"
The 5000, 100000 republican syndicate
to accomplish this, is a mighty big
fish story. Where are the members
of this syndicate to get value received
for their SGO0,O0),0O0? How is the
annexation of Canada to reimburse
these millionaires for such an outlay?
Do the inspired idiots who swallow
this SG00,000,0O0 syndicate yarn, i'm
agine that Uncle Sam is going to
confscate the domination property
wholesale, so soon as annexation is ac-
complished, in rider to reimburse
the syndicate; or, if not, how is the
outlay to be made good? Do the in
genious simpletons who credit this
Munchausen story, magazine that
American millionaires and capitalists
of smaller means are natural born
fools, or what do they imagine
Uncle Sam has shown no disposition
to cover Canada with the sheltering
wings of her soaring Eagle. When
Canada asks admission, as did Texas,
this government will take her claims
into consideration. That this great
nation will some day include the
Canadian Dominion as part of her
broad domain is very probable, if not
certain, but no S60O,0OO,0 0O syndicate
to bride Canadian electors to
vote annexation will bring it'll
about. Let English John keep
his trousers on. Our cousins
across the lakes are growing into
a unity of sentiment with our repub-
licanism, and when they are ripe for
annexation they will make Overtures
to this great, "E. Pluribus tnum;"
and, being ripe, they will drop from
the Dough Of Britannia into the open
lap of Uncle Sam. This is inevitable
destiny, but it will not be accom-
plished this century, neither will any
American syndicate build 5000, OO0,- |
600 hot house to ripen the annexation
fruit before its time.
The LIGHT ventures prophecy
Cuba will become our possession by
purchase before Canada's claims are
considered. This, because the open
ing of our Texas sea ports and our
South American connections will
necessitate our control of the quarters
from which the health of our southern
ports Is menaced. American santa
ton must dry up the fountains of
yellow fever in the gulf islands, in
order to insure our commerce from
periodical interruption and our
southern cities from desolatiOn by the
plague. TO do this etfectuaIly Cuba
must be ours, and the few millions
outlay necessary to accomplish this
will not be considered a bad invest
ment. From considerations purely
sanitary it would be an economical
measure. The loss incurred by in
terrupted commerce through quaran-
tine would more than offset in ten
years the entire purchase money.
Newly arrived spirit Wandering
aimlessly about)-What place is this ?
Can | come in ? st. Peter-Where are
you from? Spirit-San Francisco. st. |
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