New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-03
UNION WITH CANADA.
GENERAL BUTLER FAvORS A POLITICAL
AND COMMERCIAL LEAGUE.
GREAT TERRITORY AND WEALTH WITH
THE UNITED STATES AND THE DoN1Nl
ION UNITED, AMERICA COULD BID
THE WORLD DEFIANCE.


Watervlle Me-, July o.-The class-day exercises
OF Colby University were held this forenoon the
church. The Grafton, Restricted Immigration was
by Beecher Putnam and the poem by Abram wyman.
Tho senior class exercises were held on the campus
at O'Clock this afternoon The address to under
graduates by Parker p BureIgh. The Alumni
Association this afternoon elected the following off,
GERS President, j. H. Drummond, of Portland vice
president, William II. Lambert; treasurer and
tary, T. W. Hall. Of Waterville; necroogst, C. V.
Hanson, of skowhegan; councillors, Dr. G. II. Howard
and Reuben Foster, of waterville The alumni NOM
mated Reuben Foster, of wetervlle; A.. p Marble,
OF Worcester, Mass and Richard C.. Shannon, Of
New-York trustees. OIL paintings OF the late
Professor Lyford, of Worcester, Mass; Henry W.
Paine, of Boston; Dr. S. +. Smith, Of Newton, Mass,
and Dr. Upham, of Chelsea, Mass, were presented to
the association. The neurology report showed the
death Of eight graduates during the year.
At o'clock this evening General B. F. Butler
delivered an GRAFTON before the literary societies
The Annexation OF Canada" He said In part
The first great fact to be taken into contemplation
is her immense area, which includes 40 per cent OF
all the possessions of Great Britain wherever situated
america Which the Dominion Of Canada holds Within
its boundaries have an Of 3470 800 square miles
while the United states mot including Alaska Of which
the limits are unknown has Of 900 square
miles, or rising 100000 square miles less than Canada
oc Canada Canada, and her surrounding waters contain
on the globe. Please bear this great
the resources to make one Of the greatest nations on
earth; She has quite one quarter more land fitted
The average production Of wheat per in the
Snlted states In the year 1887 little twelve
bushels while in the Same year, in Manitoba where
we hardly realize there aught to support life, the
yield was ~ 100000 bushels at an average of twenty
Of herself and the United states, Of every possible
Ses than they can need IN 100 years She
known
copper GIp thsn any other country, Il not all Others
enough to compel everybody to work In order to i've
ana me land is fertile enough to give every man
wealth Of the nation and The enterprise of its
I'VE have seen that the expansion of our country
rom ocean to ocean makes limit TO ITS extension
east and west; that the proximity of the equator
on the south may not add to US peoples which viii
Tor selfgovernment and that We must look only to
e norm sr Tor nat csSs ana OF men
the future destiny Of country with the con-
hdent hope that It shall ievoutonize the world so
and maintaining tie blessings Of civil and religious
liberty, controlled by laws enacted by popular In
The problem seems to me to be this: Does Canada
desire union with the United states IL she SO sig
nifes her wish in a recognizable form, England has no
power prevent it, II Canada does not then Eng
land has no power to enact it. She may throw Canada
of a dependency, but she cannot throw her upon
the United states. Would not the more feasible, tho
more sensible the more statesmanlike and effect
i've manner of bringing together the United States and
Canada, and ultimately, both in a common bond of
political union with Great Britain herself, especially
In few years after Great Britain may be republic,
the form Of her government seeming TO be not sub
stantiay in the way now, to enter into negotiations
only one idea in common, that Is, how can
Why should not the diplomacy be- that negotiations
should be approached with view of uniting the two
adjacent English speaking peoples lying side by side
In America, In the Commercial and business con
ditons between each other, with or without zoll-
whose Institutions depend upon the sape consutu-
tlona provisions and whose laws of freedom give equal
ost or saf e demands 70 come into ike CONF mn
ss WIN the the nT states a o . %ord @
fit to take stand, which mono would or could success
Negotiations conducted on such basis and for
such al end could be carried WITHOUT touching
e pride or arosng Win none Pat 5Re
concessions would be required Of either nation.
They arc coming together Two great nayies, to
menace each other with their enormous equipment,
consequent expenditures and losses by decays,
would at once be dispensed with small inexpen-
sve navy of each could bid the world defiance and
DO used TO emphasize messages OF that which might
as well be sent by telegraph All Europe and Asia
Joined together in battle array If such thing
possible. against the English speaking people Of the
globe, would pause in dlsmay before any hostile step
National combination would within its own borders
have everything that would be necessary to carry on
defensive offensive warfare. and its borders would
be the compass Of the globe Why should wo not |
look to such a union the means of spreading the
hitting every equal rights bring into Its fold
It's proselytes in its own way agast'the atheism
or agnostclsm Of an erring world
"Take another view snch united power as have
sketched would save all the other nations OF Europe |
nom final and Inevitable bankruptcy because Of main
tanning immense armies and navies 10 the destruction
Of their people to hold eaob other In check To that
English speaking league every nation would be Obliged
10 submit for arbirament of differences. II
not because fear of It's armed intcrven ton. vet be
cause of IFS holding the money of the world No war
could be carried on which that power should dsap- |
prove and any nation might dsarm who should be |
pntectcd even by promise Of financial aid from the |
pledge Of tho united English speaking people OF the
earth. ,,.--
with America and England uniting their means OF
nroduc tion and trans pOrtatOn Of that which sustans
lie and secures comfort. want or famine could ever
come: and within a century a universal language |
could pcrvade the world. thus relieving 1t from the
punishment inflicted mankind by the Lord Al |
mighty at the Tower Of Babel" . o,.
After the Grafton the alumni repaired 10 society
Hall where luncheon aud social reunions kept them
until a late hour The trustees held a meeting. Dut
no business OF Importance has vet been transacted