Morning journal and courier., 1890-06-20

tinuine its subsidies, and he knows that when government aid is withdrawn Canada must accept such terms e the United Ssases may be willing to grant. Canada, m one sense, is England's cat's-paw. England 0ses her in her policy against the United States. It is as natural for England to do anything in her power to injure the United States as it is for spark to fly up.
 wards. England's present policy Is to get
 control of the transcontinental railroad trans
 portation of North America and te hold 1t
 against the United States. to which 1t natur-
 ally and properly belongs. The enormous subsidies paid by the British government | to Canada railways are not paid from any l particular love for the Canadians, but |
 to carry out this policy. England proposes | to drive us from national land transportation l
 as she has driven us from national ocean
 transportation. If England should ever be induced or forced to abandon this policy, 1
 she would drop Canada like hot potato
 This conviction is not an especially agreeable |
 one for the Canadian. In melancholy way
 he asks: "Who am + What am II Where am
 I9n It is sad to hear him talk about 1t. At
 the same time he Is not in favor of annexa-
 tion. He does not want to become citizen of the United States. He wishes to preserve his own individuality and the autonomy of his country. Re does not like republican form of government. Poor chap, he does not seem to reflect that he has even little ii any individuality left, and that his country never was autonomous.
 Of the pure Anglo-Saxon, there is little to be found in Canada. During all your stay ! in Montreal you may not see one thorough Britisher, unless he be on 6 visit. The ! majority of the men are small. They have | ceased to be Englishmen, though they still
 show English remnants. They do not seem ' yet to have become anything else in par ticular, or to be tending in any particular
 ethnic direction. There are some big men, but they look less like Englishmen than the
 little men. The grand reach of limb, the
 magnificent leonine stride of the true
 Britisher are rot seen in Canada. It is very
 evident that the fusing process is far less DO.
 tent than in the United States. The Irish and ! the Scotch keep to themselves. The French
 keep entirely to themselves. The trencn \ Canadians seem to be 8 very quiet, undemon. \ strative little people. They seem millions oi | aces away from the heroes and martyrs who first made the country known to Europe. The
 | old, deep-rooted race enmity between the
 ! French and the English exists in Canada. but the French seem to have lost all power ol desire to manifest it. They take no interest
 1 in politics except when their church ane their nation are attacked. Just now the, . are very lively against the imperial schem'
 l of federation, which they think, and thinl rightly, would do injury to the Roman Catholic church. They are poor. The En glish have all the money. If you ask Frsno Fl Canadian what he thinks of annexation b | will say: "Es ce que cela me regarde, meis "Can that affect met" The Canadian womel 3 | are much prettier than the English women | They are cordial, unprejudiced, amiable; no | particularly bright, not too intellectual, bu
 | they dress like the old boy. The dresses ant
 ! the head gears seen at cathedral servic would drive all notions of worship out of tn g head of New York belle. Even the Frene } Canadian women seem to have lost every bi of original French taste in the matter Q dress. There is puzzle for some ethnologis q to crack.
 al When a United States citizen reache n Montreal he will be surprised and charme f, at the noiseless rapidity with which porte ' deposits him and his traps in a cab, whic '- in a jify wheels him off to his hotel. Tn d | porter of course expects his shilling. Th ,r comfort he has given is worth dozen :. ! them. The Grand Central depot in Ne York city is frightful abomination. IT
 transportation to and from residence to raj n | road car is as much part of travel as u
 transportation in the car. Travel is mat l. up of substance and incidents and the inc 3. | dents are as integral as the substance. Ii 8. clude Montreal in your trip. You will g t. lots of new things and get lots of new idea ~ ~ Go frst to Saratoga. Then by the Lal IS Champlain steamers down the lake, sto ,g | ping over night either at the "Windso ,e | at Roussss' Point, or at the "Wsldon" at Albans. Just now avoid the -Delawa ae and Hudson beyond Lake George. The ze " son is that just now they are doing thre ,g track business on a single track read. La ,n | winter every farmer living on the upper pa :. of Lake Champlain who could afford 1t bu1 oi an ice house. As these houses were hasti os i and improperly built, and as the ice was n in ! of the best when cut, each ice owner is hu
 :. rying his ice to southern market before hs melts on his hands. Ice is being loaded in nd cars and canal boats as fast as they can ad secured. There are hundreds of canal boi tb at Whitehall waiting their turn to pass t
 canal Ice trains block the Delaware a go Hudson's railroad all the way from Sarato e. to Plattsburgh. Take the boat or the VI al- | mont Central till the ice blockade be ov in Otherwise you may fare ss did your vered
 and not reach Montreal till after midnight
 PERIANDER