Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1889-07-20
THE ANNEXATION OF CANADA,

senator HOar's Views On the cues.
tion Az Expressed Before the Massa.
chusetts Club At Point of Pines Yes
tefday.
BOSTON, July 19.-The members of the
Massachusetts club to the number of fifty OF
more, enjoyed their summer outing at Point
of Pines this afternoon. Ex-Governor Will
liam Clafin presided during the earlier part
OF the meeting, then giving place to Hon. A.
W. Beard. Among the speakers present
were: Senator Hoar, Ex-Governor Clafip,
Hon. A. W. Beard, Congressman Robert W.
Davis and General John L. Swift. Most of
the speakers dwelt upon the question of
Canadian annexation, and were heartily ia
Its favor. Senator Hoar made the principal
speech.
Unquestionably, said the speaker, there
are many considerations which might make
us and our Canadian brethren desire to be
united In one country: In the first place, it
seems to me absolutely impossible that
hostile or different commercial sys-
TENS, or fiscal systems, or tar
IFS can be maintained when that great coun-
try along our border has got filed up. In
the next place do not see how his nation
of what is called commercial union is likely
ever to be practicable. I know wise men
think it is and would speak with great de-
ference in differing from them. But do not
think 1t is possible that the people of Canada
should maintain a political relation with
Great Britain and at the same time have
absolute freedom of commercial intercourse
with US admitting our manufactures without
tax and establishing as against the country
of which they are part. protective, still
less an excluding tariff.
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were something of great Importance to us
because of the people who occupy it, but
British Columbia and Manitoba together are
not equal in point of wealth, population or
Importance to two wards of the City of Bos-
ton that could be named. 1t is, therefore, as
a matter of the future and not of the present
that these populations are matters of interest
to us.
The senator outlined the differences in the
forms of government of the two countries in
their political systems, and said that Great
Britain is endeavoring to foster national
spirit and a spirit of loyalty in the hearts of
the rising generation of the Canadian people.
She is undertaking to make of Canada great
link in the chain which she is weaving around
the planet of commerce and of military pow
or. So far do not suppose that there is an
tions were ever brohght together by spirit
of cool calculation of their commercial or
national interests. say these things not
in a spirit of dissent from the doctrines
expressed here to-day, but as point
ing out that it is something
more than gathering plum or picking up a
ripe pear that we have to do when we ennex
Canada. The forces which are to bring her
to us are to be multiplied with every inven-
ton, with every improvement in transporta-
ton, with every cheapening in freight. The
telegraph and telephone and the railroad are
pulling us with their mighty attraction, and
the common speech as we'll as the common
interest are pulling in this way. At the
same time there are, as I have said, these
obstacles, which have been enough to keep
Europe divided into sixty nationaIities, at
the present time with which we are to con
tend and which we must overcome before we
acquire Canada.