Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

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band his last drink, and the saloon man
will pay.
THERE is no possible objection to Cana
dams having flag if they want it, but the
wise man secures a horse before he buys a
saddle Better first get a government of
their own.
THE Italian military engineers are build
ing Notifications on the top of Mount
Gents and the Alps near Nice in order to
prepare against French invasion of Italy
at those points; the works are being
pressed forward, as the military authori-
ties consider them urgent in view of sud
den changes liable to occur in France at
any time
PosTMAsTER- GENERAL WANAMAKER
In his first report to President Harrison,
wants, among other things, a Fourth As
sistant Postmaster-Gen appointed; sug-
gests many needed reforms; says he is dis
appointed at negotiations with the West
ern Union relative to telegraph rates; sug-
gests the establishment of a limited postal
telegraph service, and thinks the 1-cent
postage an easy possibility of the near
future and inevitable.
For the last quarter of acentury feel
ing has been growing among the people OF
Brazil that a monarchial form of govern
ment was not suited for the country's pro-
per advancement and comparison of the
rapid growth of the United States OF
America with the slower progress of their
own country excited feeling of great dis
content. Dom Pedro has frequently ex-
pressed the opinion that after his death,
the system of republicanism would prevail,
that the people would not respect the de-
scent of a queenly empire, that he was IN
favor of such change, if his people were
largely numerically in its favor and the
change could be effected without bloodshed.
Personally, Dom Pedro was and Is today
very much respected and beloved by his
people. Within the last two years he has
been to Europe, and for some weeks was
very sick man. If his presence was in the
way the revolutionary party would have
made their present movement at that time.
The revolution is the outgrowth of long
lingering national feeling on many ques-
tions, office-seeking, slavery and immirga-
ton. The last named brought about eman-
cipation. Hordes of men, women and
children, mostly Germans, poured In upon
the country more rapidly then they could
be disposed of, and being willing and skill
ed in handicraft they crowded the slave
emporium and threw the slaves upon
their masters. Thus at one time (1840)
brought on a revolutionary movement, In
which the natives and immigrants were
principally engaged, and for many years
put a stop to immigration. OF late years
immigration was again invited, and such
inducements was given out that the foreign
ers be came much more numerous than be-
fore, and the consequence is the imperial
government has recently been oppressed
bv the slave owners for damages. This
condition of affairs may be looked upon In
about the same light as our late unpleas-
antness. The expulsion of Dom Pedro
from his country was meritorious act.
The new government did not wish to take
upon itself the responsibility for the safety
of his life in the strife.
The sentiment in Canada in favor of
annexation to the United States is rapidly
growing. The fact that number of the
leading newspapers of the Dominion-and
the Canadian press is the most conserv-
alive in the world-have declared in favor
of it, is strong proof of the trend of public
opinion. The latest to declare in favor of
annexation is La Patrie, one of the most
influential of all the Canadian journals.
La Patrie puts it strongly: THE chief
glory of the fathers of the
American Republic was that they raised
the intellectual and moral standard of the
masses and impregnated the soul with the
idea of its dignity in having conquered
the forces of nature, which has rendered
the nineteenth century more brilliant and
more noble than all preceding ones. Our
Government has with difficulty arrived at
its present age, and now we see Sir
Charles Upper, its official representative
in England, attempting to destroy
it by rearing on its ruins
that structure of folly known as
imperial federation-a sort of Eiffel tower
of matches. We cannot afford to sheer
at the wonderful progress of the United
States He who wants to be free, say the
English. must himself first strike the blow
How long, Canadians, will we be content to
play in the political arena the role of infer
Tor beings? The kings of France and Eng
land in by-gone days made war through
out the world with varying fortune. Be-
cause the latter proved the stronger in
America does it follow that we must for
ever submit to the scepter? Have we
nothing to say for ourselves? Have we
got no right to appeal from the fate of
arms? Why we are not men? The United
States offers the fullest freedom. political
and religious. Nothing in its constitu'
ton excludes Catholics from the White
House. while the British sovereign is
bound to swear before he ascends the
throne that he will be the enemy eX-othcio