New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-03
H..

NO people have o greater confidence IN themselves
abiding faith in the spltbr OF their
than these Western Canadians Tfey have had thcii
carefully investigated through Perla
mentary commissions They know they have the
agricultural land whereupon a nation Of 30 100000
easily be sustained. They know their climate
though perhaps not all italian lazzarOne or Congo
savage might desire is nevertheless favorable TO
production and hospitable all the year around They
know they have coal deposits extensive to render
the question of fuel of concern They know they
have granite and marble tin, copper lead iron
sulphur gold and silver in vast quantities They
have bulded themselves proud and handsome city
which is geographically where it ought TO be- Theil
blood is Saxon and they mean 20 work out a future
full Of noble achievement.
The question is-Under which fag7 That Is the
vital al-abSorbing question throughout the whole
Of Canada from Halifax 10 Victoria. but IL is the
question here in emphatic sense Mani
toba and the Northwest tess anxious thought
full. They have little in common with Eastern Canada
far less with England, ana vast deal with the United
States think it is safe assertion that they would
have been knocking at our door long ago had not
the Canadian Pacific been put through. That mighty
thoroughfare puts them into direct communication
with the Eastern Provinces Without It they must
have come through St. Paul and Duluth to US NOT
only for their necessities but for their Institutions
Even as It is, they but be drawn toward America
with many strongly magnetic bands. An their inc
Northwest Their In kind identical with
ours. Their land is but extension Of our Dakotas
Their mountains only a continuation Of our Rockies
and coast ranges. They lands producing
benecent results IN the growth and DEVELOPMENT OF
resources which they share with They see that our
acres teemng with activity while theirs are com
paratively idle. They that mines open their
mouths and fairly belch forth gold, while theirs are
still rockbound. They adopt our laws and see what
imitation Will accomplish. They make homestead and
presumption offers TO settlers copied after ours and
even more liberal in terms. They give land and
mineral patents almost for the asking, and vet some
how, they don't seem 10 be moving fast enough The
tide of immigration moves steadily into Dakota
Montana and Washington. Do what they WILL thoy
able to bring but little of 1t into Manitoba Alberta
Athabasca, AssiDiboia and Saskatchewan In fact 10
make things worse in spite of the wonderful growth OF
their own town and Province they see the fatal tide
Of Canadian immigration moving silently from Ontario
and Quebec, and even from their own Northwest into
the Republic. They can but ask themselves oitenor
and oftener-Undec which dag7
/ have tried with considerable diligence TO get a,
the real drift of Western Canadian sentiment with r.
gard 10 the political future Of the Dominion both be
the question is pertinent and because I'm my
judgment, IL is TO be finally decided not by the sent
ment Of the 81. Lawrence Canadians but bv
that OF the hed River Canadians. How
the ball rolls, whether Canada sets up system NJ
her OVID, Whother she enters British federation m
comes US, this is cleaI-ho cities and tho
farms of the future Canada Will be northwest from,
st. Paul northeast from Buffalo: and the reaso,
is the very simple one that here they have what I'm
the East there arc physical reasons why they neyer
can have, country Here they have tho means If
sustaining tremendous population. The feeling Of
Western Canada is, therefore, of the highest imUort
ance. II have failed ascertain it, the faul, T.
not that Of the men Of Winnipeg They have talked
freely, and have taken vast pains TO bring he into
communication with representatives Of all shades of
opinion. They have talked from full hearts, too and
with faces that showed how much they felt and
thought Of the future.
There is a good deal of misapprehension here as TO
American public feeling, arising chiefly from the fact
that being desperately Interested themselves they
Jump at the conclusion that the Americans are too
and, thus Impressed, they greatly overestlmafe the
little incidents IN our country that have or meant
TO have some bearing on the question of international
relations. The amiable resolutions offered I'm Con
gress last winter by Mr. Buerworh SAYING In effect
Cf remember correctly, that when Canada wants 10
We Will take her. joyousy hailed by some
andndignantiy resented by Others as direct appeal or
direct menace, according 10 the point Of from
which they regarded. But from either point they
were looked upon as immensely significant than
We Americans have ever thought Of thinking them |
for the fervd and somewhat eccentric performances
Of Mr. Erastus Wiman. they looked upon as quite
Next 10 old Sir John. inclined 10 |