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

THE "cANUcKn SAID TO LOVE THE STATES
ONLY WITH A SELFISH MOTIVE.
TO ne BdGtor or rae rrtbwmG
Sir: II would be an interesting study TO find out, II
finding out be possible Just Why tho assertion Is so
often made that Canadians arc ready TO Join the Union
to dof Brltonism and don Americanism. II is made
because tho newspapers Of Canada advocate annexa-
toni Is II made because the lawmakers OF the
Dominion advocate annexation9 Where in all the
Dominion is there any class of men, Of real importance
In standing or numbers who advocate annexation 1t
would DO difficult TO find in Canada itself any fonda
hon for the assertion. Canada may come into the
United States, but howl Not as nation, not as
State nor as several States not ASSOCIATED member
OF the British Empire but She is coming and wiz con-
tinue to como as individuals. sturdy laborers. as
industrious artisans homebuders, thriving pro-
dnceis. Hundreds of thousands Of Canadians have
como into the States. They como generally, not
as "Yankees,s but as Canuckss and true Britons.
They refuse to naturalLe They proudly boast OF tier
allegiance 10 Great Britain. They openly announce that
they are here not as Americans having direct per.
sonal interest in the States but as Bntons living here
10 mako the competency denied to them In their own
country. Buffalo has thousands Of these Brftons'
Every other frontier town Is fun Of them. They are
frugal thrifty, honest intelligent, industrious ana
noney-makng and money-saying people. but hey
are not American In any sense Of the word.
Now, this being indisputably true Of the Canadians
who live In the United States, what must be thought
Of the Canadians who remain In Canadaf The Brton
Is nowhere more Briton than in Canada No Bnton
cordially fawns upon royalty than tho Canadian
Brlton. No Briton is to-day further from any wish
or any attempt TO dismember the great British Empire
than is the Canadian Briton.
The average Canadian sums up the whole situation
from a purely financial point Of view. lie longs 10
be admitted 70 the markets Of the States with HIS i
ber his ores his gain his coal and his other produce
and that is as far as no goes He wants the American
dollar but lie does not want the Stars and stripes He
prefers to think and he Is quite ready 70 assert that
he is a superior being because ho is Canadian and
nriton He proclams that 10 he has oven chance
with the Yankee he can worst him. He does not
seem, however, to be able TO mako for himself the
chances He waits till the Yankee makes them, and
then he attempts 70 utilize them.
Read a Canadian paper, and you Will see that,
where DahotanS raise only twelve or thirteen bushels
of wheat the acre the Manoban raises thirtyfve
or forty bushels. You VIII see that all the timber
and mineral wealth Of the States is leabite In
comparison with that Of Canada You viii be told
that the Canadian laws infinitely superior 10 tho
American laws, that Canadian ciles are more spies,
more intellg gent than American farmers that CANADIAN
climatic conditions more favorable than American
climatic conditions and, in short that every Canadian
II may not matter that nearly 2,00O,0OO CANADIANS
are living the States In preference TO Canada or at
than the whole Dominion or that another single state
produces more crops than the whole Dominion. IhOse
facts have effect whatever on the average Canuck
o makes up bis mind that he Is superior ciuhen Oh
a superior country, and that settles Il.
j. ALEXANDER MACGuLlCUDDf'
Buffalo, n. Y, Feb 25, 1882