The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-02
A USE FOR BoULANGER.

A great many people in this country have
believed for long time that Canada was
an integral part of our soil and that by one
means or another it would yet be so de-
clared and recognized. This, even to the
ordinary observer, would seem to be mani
fest destiny, since it is so well known
that geographically and sympathetically
the only line which divides the two SOW
ereignties is, with the exception of the
Niagara river, purely imaginary; that is,
the average citizen equipped even with a
spy-glass could not see it.
The movement in the direction of a union
with our northern neighbor is somewhat
like the ebbing and flowing Of the tides, in
that now it is almost at the very point Of
accomplishment, again, not talked of at all.
But we are constantly, although it may
be unconsciously getting nearer and
nearer to the inevitable every year. The
Chicago Globe grasps the situation per-
fectly when it says that move is on foot
in Quebec which may give the Domin-
ion government great deal Of
trouble and tend strongly to dis
seminate among the Anglo-Canadians,
an inclination to favor annexation to the
United States as the easiest way of getting
a rest from the constant and increasing
agitation and discomfort of the French
Canadians.
Papineauism, says the same authority,
was ''scotched, not killed, in the suppress
sion of the patriot war; in 1887, and the
feeling of hostility to England and the
English in Canada which that outbreak
represented has grown with the increase
of the French population, and is perhaps
more intense now than ever before. With
a popular idol and man of military pre-
tensions for a leader, the desire for separa-
ton from Canada and England, and close
alliance or other connection with France,
might soon manifest itself in action as per-
sistent and perhaps more violent than that
of the nationalist agitation in Ireland.
There are some people in that part Of the
land who stand high and are recognized as
possessing great ability; their positions
are so conspicuous with reference to the
government that they might not be willing
to acknowledge the fact that a man like
BoULANGER, whom the Dominion has re
Gently coquetted with, and whom it, or
considerable part Of it, is even now willing
to receive with open arms, has any stand
ing or supremacy; that, as is stated, an
excited and dissatisfied populace is not al
ways critical as to the character of its
leaders, and the fugitive and forlorn rene
gade who has but recently suffered such
awful defeat in the elections of his own
land, is as shrewd as he is INSCRIPTIONS,
and might easily win large following
among the dissatisfied people of Canada.
This would be a strange contamination,
indeed The idea of man expatriated by
his own country and looked upon with
marked disfavor by this one, being at last
the means by which we reach satisfac-
tory conclusion with our northern neigh
Dor, Canada! If su b a conclusion should
come from such means, we might well
thereafter suspend judgment as to all
classes of people who spring into promi-
nence because of criminal or guilty partici-
patton in or connivance at unlawful or i'm
proper results, and look upon them as those
whose shortcomings may be explained
away and whose defalcations may be made
good later on. Well, perhaps that would
not be so bad a consummation, after all