The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-15
CUBA AND CANADA.

Secretary BLAINE has been joining in the
talk about the annexation of Canada and
Cuba, but to his credit be it said he talks
like acool-headed statesman, and not like SC
many of the blathersliue politicians anC
thoughtless editors who are urging the i'm
mediate incorporation of the island and the
province named in the American republic
Mr.. BLAINE doesn't say so in wor0s, but he
lets it be known that III the case Of each Of
these it viii take two parties to make the
bargain, and that it will require some very
important legislation before the scheme can
be consummated. He deprecates the agita-
ton of the matter, as the more wild and
reckless talk there is about it the more diff
ticult it will be to accomplish the object
sought. He thinks the time to pluck the
fruit is when it is ripe.
The men who are doing so much talking
about the annexation of Cuba and Canada
are not statesmen, to say the least. and
they do not understand the theory. the
inhibition or the practice of the United
States 1t is hardly to be expected that
they would understand these things as to
other governments. Cuba is owned by
Spain dS Auutll is II -NlduIlu Vi DIS any Ol
the provinces, and is as completely under
Spanish control; Spain does not want to
sell the island, and win not give it away.
and now how are the United States going
about it to annex. To use force would in
volve more trouble and expense than
dozen Cubas would be worth. The CON
fict would not be with Spain alone,
but with other powers, which would
naturally oppose the forcible acquisition
by the United States of so important an
island. And then there would be the
Cubans themselves TO conquer, the great
majority of them being as loyal to the
crown as any living people are to their
rulers. A few adventures desire annexa-
ton, and a few others love liberty more
than they do loyalty, but the Cuban masses
prefer Spanish to American rule. Before we
annex the island we should be Ger
tain that majority of the people desired
to come under the stars and stripes.
The case of Canada is somewhat similar
such difference as exists being opposed to
annexation. A few Canadians would like
to see the stars and stripes floating over the
dominion, but they are only few, com
paratively speaking. The majority are
still as loyal to the Queen as are the dwell !
ers in London. But the faction which is
growing fastest and which promises in /
time to carry the day is that whichis dis
posed to withdraw from the mother coun-
try, and form an independent republic with
the United States for an ally instead of a
master. We do not doubt that in time por-
tons if not all of the British possessions in |
North America viii be Incorporated in the |
United States, but before that time there
will be one or more republics formed from
Canadian territory. 1t is certain, let the |
thoughtless anneXationists talk as they |
may, that there will be neither annexation |
nor conquest until great political revOlu |
ton has been wrought among the Canadian |
people, and we doubt that that revolution |
will be wrought before the Canadians have |
tried an Independent government and |
wisely concluded that it will be better for |
them to become a part of the American
union. In other word there will be no an
nexation until the Canadian people are as
eager to enter the union as Americans can |
no m accent them