The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-04-25

The Annexation of. Canada.
Il nd the Purchase of All British Terri
tory on the Continent Would Inn
mOrfalize this Admin.
iSfrati0n.

From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The people of the United States are be-
/ ginning to recognize the fact that the an
neXation Of Canada is the irresistible log
ic Of events. There are four great force.
that are silently working towards annexa
! ton First, her geographical situation
with reference to the United States, is ar
ever-recurring suggestion that the United
States and Canada are one common coun.
try. with common destiny. and should be
under a common government second
her people and our own have common
origin, are of the same great Anglo-Sax
On race and speak common language
third, her commercial interests demand
free intercourse with the United States
our revenue laws Obstruct free CONNER
which lay across the pathway of her com
mercial progress and development. The
United States is her natural and best mar
ket for all her produce: annexation would
remove all commercial restrictions now
existing between the two countries fourth,
there is a growing sentiment in Canada in
favor of more complete local self-gov-
ment; her isolation from England, her pa
rule of foreign governors appointed by a
government in whose choice the wishes of
her people find no expression, and in.whose
Parliament they have no representation,
90, tho canadian ,,onp1o n IOrH fory1yo r6
to annexation with the United States as
their only hope for the blessings of free
government.
These four great forces cannot long be
resisted Canada will come to us by the
laws of gravity. by the laws of race and
common language, ty the laws Of COM
merce and by common love of freedom
and sell. government.
The question then to be considered in
this connection is, what ought we to do
about the British possessions which lay
north and west of the Provinces of Que
bee and Ontario (Lower and Upper Can
ada) and which extend across the CONT
nent and north to the Arctic Ocean, and
belong to the Crown of England. This
vast territory exceeds in dimensions the
VIII lie of the United States, but its value
les chiefly in its timber and fisheries. We
hav, but SIX hundred million acres of
tim er, while there are nine hundred mil
lilo IS acres of the finest timber in the
Wo Id in the Dominion of Canada, There
is fine scope of country with fine eli
mate lying between latitude fifty and sixty,
north of MINES ta, Dakota and Montana,
that would make several good States. and
her fisheries are perhaps the finest in the
world.
VIZ own all the territory On the conti-
nent west of the Dominion Of Canada; it
is al, embraced within the Territory OF
Alaska. ..and time has demonstrated the
wisdom of that purchase. We would now
like to see this administration enter into
negotiations for the purchase of the en-
tire Dominion of Canada. we will need
that 90O,O00,00 acres of timber in our
Western States and Territories; the for
ests of Indiana and Michigan, Wisconsin
ID,
drawn their supply have already been
culled and are icing rapidly exhausted :;
while the forests of Kentucky, Tennessee.
Wisconsin and Arkansas are failing rap
idly from the heavy demand made upon
them. When we consider that there is
practically no timber in Illinois, Iowa,
Nebraska, the Dakotas, Montana. Wyo-
ming, Colorado, Kansas. New Mexico and
Texas, and the immense amount of lum'
Der that these States and Territories will
demand within few years, it becomes ev
ident that we are going to run short of
timber in the near future.
We are already running short OF good
land for homesteads. The great strife
now going on over the lards of Oklahoma
painfully reminds us of this fact. If. I'm :
Gle Sam is going to give all the "boys" a
good farm, he will soon need the territory
north of us.
BEYOND the building of a first class navy.
and the establishment of steamship lines
which should demand the earliest atten-
ton OF our government. VIZ Sudll have Ho
great demand on our National Treasury
in the future; and if England can be in
duced to sell us all of her territory on this
continent at fair price we would be able
to pay for it out of our surplus. eshould
like to see General Harrison and Jas. G..
Blaine immortalize this Administration by
by this great purchase.
l. B. MORRACE,
RICHMOND, IND. April IL. 1889.