The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15

the legislative jurisdiction given them
by the fundamental law or Constl-
tuition of 1857: and TO repeal ever
a statute passed by the imperial Parliament
previoustothe granting of that Constitution
with reference to subjects of Canadian con-
cernf All these are surely SO many evil
dences that the logic of events is much
more forcible than the logic of statesmen,
and that Canada is slowly. but steadily,
nevertheless, being carried in the direction
of some great change In her political condl-
ton. My own desire is, and my belief Is.
as | have already indicated, to see Can
ada, if possible, assuming a higher position
within the empire. OF at all events main
tain with it such an alliance as Will be
mutually advantageous. Of one thing L
Canadian feels in his heart the least desire
in favor of annexation. That would mean
to give up every honest and legitimate am
bitiOn to see Canada reap the reward OF the
struggles of the past and her efforts OF the
this continent. Let me ask you In all
frankness what you lave to offer
us in exchange for giving up. every
thing that gives an incentive TO
ing failure in eur schemes of national
development. We have a country with a
climate as bracing and healthy as your
own in the North and West. l think 1T Is
the great French thinker, MOntesquieu,
from whom the founders of your constltu-
tional system learned many lessons of Wis
dom, who say that a climate like that we
have in Can ada will produce strength,
self-reliance and confidence in ones own
security and capacity to hold ones W
among communities. We have a vast area
of country still undeveloped more val
liable for the cultivation of cereals than
any you have yet untitled. We have the
finest fisheries in the world, as we have
already learned from the efforts of your
politicians to get the easiest and cheapest
access to them that Is possible. We have
~inexhaustible coal mines and large deposits
of minerals of various kinds, which must
sooner or later add greatly to our national
wealth. We haye a system of government
which, in all essential respects, is
calculated to give free expan-
sion to the energies and capacities
of the people, and is in certain particulars
the Cabinet of Canada has a seat in Parlia-
ment, is responsible to that body for all its
acts. explains and justifies the work of ad-
tion. and only holds office as long as it has
the confidence and support of the peoples
house. may be cited as some evidence of the
superiority of our government over your 1r-
responsible system, which gives no place to
your Cabinet in the Congress, and renders
| your whole legislative machinery much less
effective. Our judiciary holds it's term for
life, is subject only to removal on the ad-
dress of Parliament after impeachmenta and
trial, and is not exposed to the caprice or
III bhO OPu1dl Will ~
seen in the new Territories of Canada a
greater respect for the authority of the
law than you have in many of your regu-
larry organized StOtes, and it is needless to
our old communities the thugism
and murderous cOnspiracies which
disgrace the history of Chicago and
some other of your great centers of popu-
lation, and ever and amor make the whole
civilized world stand aghast and wonder
If the future of your country is secure when
Anarchists and ~cOnspirators are allowed to
prosecute their unlawful plans. Onr moral
and social atmosphere is certainly in all re-
spects as healtbful as your own, if / dare
say so, and we value as above all price the
sanctity of the ties that bind together the
family-the only true basis on which a COM
munity can rest its happiness. We adhere
more closely than you do, perhaps, to all
those sound maxims of government and
| Jurisprudence which have come down to US
from our common English fathers. In self
defense, as a Canadian, L am compelled to
make these comparisons. not in an ungener-
Gus or unkindly spirit, but with the sole
desire to show that we have much reason
for thankfulness as Canadians that we live
in a country like ours. Still, we must adj
NIT that your country can we'll evoke the
admiration of the world for its remarka BILE
strides in material wealth, in political
greatness. and in the intelligence and
culture of its people. No Canadians
can visit your cities, towns and villages
Il II DClhk hOU NClCl u
the evidences of wealth, but by the signs
| of taste and refinement displayed i'm your
beautiful homes, your EMPOWERED avenues
and streets. your lovely parks, and the
many opportunities given to the masses to
enjoy q holiday among the mountains, by
the sides of your many lakes, or on the
great oceans that roll ON your Atlantic and
Pacific coasts. Above all, we admire your
noble educational institutions, which illus
trate so well the generosity and sagacity
not only of your State governments, but
of l~arge-minded men like Johns Hopkins.
Peabody and Cornell. All these and
other matters are objects not of our envy
but of pleasing contemplation. We point
to them as worthy of the emulation of our
people, just as we point to blemishes in
your political or social organization for our
| self-instructiOn. Each country, / think,
can learn something from the other, and
both can certainly cultivate all those re-
latiOns which are natural between COM
munities who are bound to each other by
every consideration of self-interest, COM
mon origin, neighborly intercourse and
friendly rivalry. The continent is broad
enough for two great nations animated by
an equal desire to perpetuate the English
language and the blessings of sound gov
eminent whose principles are derived from
those men who wrung the great charter
from John at Runneymede, and were illus
trated by the lives of Pym, Hampden and
RUSSELL