St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-23
Queer Doctrine for a Party
Whose Cardinal Principle
Is Protection.
Advantages of an Exchange OF
Natural Products Along
the Border.
Erastus Wiman'S Commercial
Union Hobby Championed
by a Torontonian.

versary of Washington's birth. The
commemoration of that event was
begun in Central music hall this after
noon. The platform was occupied by
distinguished men from various parts Of
the Union, and the large auditorium
was completely filed with prominent
people from this and other cities. EX-
Gov. Jacob d. Cox, of Ohio, who was
secretary of the interior in Grants first
cabinet. was the orator of the day, TAX
Ing as his subject washington. the
Citizens Example" He delivered an
eloquent, although radical, address.
which at times aroused the critical as
Semblage to more than ordinary cnthus-
tasm. He deplored at length the deca-
dence of the simplicity in politi-
cal affairs that marked the adj
ministration of the first presi-
dent, the tendency of politicians
and pension agents to control the
soldier vote and the corruption which
prevails in politics, and strongly COM
mended civil service reform on the
ground that the offices belonged to the
whole country and not to any one party.
At 7:30 o'clock this evening the men,
bers of the club and their guests sat
down to the annual banquet at the club
house. At its conclusion the following
programme of toaSts was taken up:
american Policy for the American
People," Gen. Russell A. Alger, of
Michigan; The Political Relations of
the United States ana Canada. From a
Canadian Standpoint" Henry W. Darl-
ing. of Toronto; manifest Destiny"
Hon. Frank E. Davis, of Minnesota;
s'Ihe American Commonwealth,
Bishop Charles Edward Cheney. Mr..
Darling said in part: ''To thoughtful
Canadians, the word annexation has
an ominous and unattractiye ring; con-
Veying to them an impression of a con-
fession of failure in the mission CON-
mitted to them by their forefathers, as
to the future destiny of their country.
an impression that they are adopting
voluntarily in despair. the only course
open to them if they are to escape ire
parable disaster; or an impression of
COERCION AND FORCE
at which their nature revolts and which
they are bound to resist. | think /
correctly describe the prevailing senti-
ments of Canadians generally when |
say the word annexation is extremely
distasteful to them. You would prob
ably deSpiSe them were it otherwise.
The tie that binds them to the mother
land is silver thread that can be broken
practically at will; but their affection
for the land of their forefathers is
feeling which is and always will be pre-
dominant i'll their breasts. British
Canadians cling to the glories and tradi-
tons of the race. They hope to be able
to preserve all the characteristics of
England's prosperous policy. They
have neither sympathy with, nor en-
enlargement for the enemies of the
taken as to their ultimate destiny
and they may overestimate their ability
to make the North American continent
the home of a great and Independent
Anglo-Saxon race; but If their political
relations are to be changed, it will come
about as the natural sequence Of events,
and not purely as the result of an appeal
TO Sordid or material considerations. |
can conceive of policy of injustice to
one of the provinces being carried to
an extent that might produce move
ment in favor of the separation of that
province from the confederation, with
view to union with the United States;
but such an agitation, if based upon
righteous and equitable grounds, would
be almost certain of accomplishing the
REMOVAL OF INJUSTICE,
or the defeat of the party in power,
perpetrating it. The feeling against
Americans bred by your Revolutionary
war, which drove the loyalists who
founded Canada into exile; by the war
or 1912, and by subsequent misunder-
standings, has largely passed away, but
the growth of good will is different
thing from readiness for political union,
and cannot help earnestly abjuring
you while we are discussing the advan-
tages which hope to lay clearly before
you of another union, to dismiss from
your minds the question of political
union. | refer to what is known as
commercial union, or unrestricted re-
eiprocity, or continental free trade,
whichever of these terms may best con-
Vey the idea to your minds. | would
ask you to look at the map of North
America and say whether it Is not
in violation OF all the indica-
tons of nature that artificial barriers to
trade and commerce should be erected
along an imaginary line stretching
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, be-
tween peoples of common descent and
common language, who are engaged in
a common aim, namely, the making
tributary to their material advancement
the vast resources oil nature which, by
the bounty of Providence, have been
p. aced at their disposal. Granted, for
JnOment, that there are two nations;
that each has its individual interests to
serve. and its national requirements in
the way of revenue TO be provided-the
policy that separates them at present
does not exist mainly for revenue pur-
poses, because your treasury is an over
flowing one; and the policy of Canada
ainntAh 9 tiyn 70 n,rn
which, had you been willing, would
haue been infinitely
PREFERRED BY THEIR PEOPLE"
Inc speaker then rev eWed at length
che QUESTION of trade between the
United States and Canada, showing that
since 1850 the balance in favor of the
United States had aggregated over
S 0 ..OO0, 1000; that, when the treaty of 1854
f,r an exchange of natural products
went into effect, there was great in
crease III international trade, and that
W at was terminated in 1866 by the
United States, because of supposed Ca
indian sympathy with the South, there
was great fallidg off, to the decided
injury of 10th nations. The speaker
proceeded to present statistics of trade,
Showing, among other things, that Can
ada's trade with Great Britain, though
unrestricted, was falling off, while with
the United States. in spite of restrictions
it was increasing. The speaker de-
cIared that the position taken by Hon.
Ben ButterwOrth and other American
statesmen OH reciprocal trade. has
eau I'D an agitation of unparalleled rap
it, in Canada, though it was some
what checked by the passage of the re-
taliation bill, which, however. he be-
loved grew out of political eXigency.
With reciprocal trade, he thought there
would be no difficulty about assimilat-
ing the tariffs of the two countries, as
the tendency in the United States, he
said. is downward, while that in Canada
iS nnNard intnrnaI rounnrn 11.onld I,a