Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-11
A Big ALLIANCE

| Bon Butler Advocates the Practical Unfvz
| of the MISUNDERSTANDING People.
VAUDEVILLE, Me-, July ain address,
| ing the literary societies of Colby UNI
versity last night upon ssThe Annexation
Of Canada" General Benz ami9 r. Butler
concluded thus: Tho problem seems to
mo to be this: Does Canada desire .
union with the United States1 II she so
signifies her wish in recognizable form,
England has no power to prevent it II
Canada does not, then England has NO
power to enact it She may throw
she can not throw her upon the
United States. Would not the more
feasible, tho more sensible, the more
statesmanlike and effective manner Of
bringing together the United States and
Canada be to enter into negotiations for
that purpose. carefully and in the most
friendly spirit, the negotiators in charge
having only one idea in common-that is
how can the three people best get together.
Our late attempted negotiations and en-
actments-for diplomacy it can not be
called-will only result in raising ill.
feeling on the part of our neighbors,
because of the annoying fact that for
the first time in the history Of diplo.
macy has a province been left to carry on
q diplomatic struggle with a nation al
most without the aid of the parent country
without threat that the consequences OF
failure of treaty were to be visited upon
the province alone Why should not the
diplomacy, instead CT this paltry and mar
row matter, be that negotiations should be
approached with view of uniting the
two adjacent English speaking peoples
lying side by side in America in
the same commercial and business condi-
tions between each other, with or
without zollverein, as may be deter
mined, leaving Great Britain, whose insti-
buttons depend upon the same constitutions
al provisions and whose laws of freedom
give equal protection to their several
peoples. when her interest or safety de-
mands, to come into like compact with the
United States and Canada at league
against the world, if aisy part of the world
should see fit to take stand, which none
would or could successfully do.
Negotiations conducted on such basis
and for such an end could be carried on
without touching the pride or arousing
jeasousies, with none but the kindest sem
timents being evolved in either people.
Two great navies to menace each other
with their enormous equipment and con.
sequent expenditures and losses by de-
Gays would at once be dispensed with.
A small, inexpensive navy of each could
bid the world Defiance All Europe and
Asia Joined together in battle array, if
such thing were possible, against the
English-speaking people of the globe,
would pause in dismay before an hostile
step should be taken against such a united
Power. Such a natural combination
would within its own border have every
thing that would be necessary to carry on
q defensive or offensive warfare.
Take another view: Such a united
power as I have sketched would save all
the other nations of Europe from final
and inevitable bankruptcy because of
immense armies and navies
to the destruction of their people to hold
each other in check. To that English
speaking league every nation would be
obliged to submit for arbitrament every
cause for difference. if not because
of fear of its armed interv ention, yet be-
cause af its boarding the money of the
world. No war could be carried on which
that power should disapprove and any
nation might disarm who should be pro-
tected even by promise of financial aid
from the pledge of the united English
speaking people of the earth"