Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-21
NO MONUMENT
Needed to Perpetuate the Mem
Ory of John Mcdonald.
The Result of His Policy Viii Be
Sufficient.

He Caused the Failure of the Project to
Secure Closer Commercial Relations
Between the Dominion and the United
States, and VIII Long lie Remembered
for It-SO Says Erastus Wiman.
TORONTO, July 21.-In response to o
request for cooperation in New York
for promoting national monument to
be erected in Canada to Sir John Mac
donald, Erastus Wiman has written to u
friend in Toronto in the following terms:
There is no monument needed to perpet-
uate the memory of Sir John Macdonald so
long as the great barrier exists which his
national policy has created between the
English-speaking people of the continent,
| for so long will he be remembered by the
| people of both countries.
This barrier, the work of man, as COM
pletely separates the two sections of the
Anglo-SaXon race in this great field of OPP
| portunity as if by the hand of God they
were divided by high mountain, wide
desert, or a deep morass 4 900 miles long.
| so far as trade and commerce is concerned,
the existence of prosperity in Canada, oc-
cupying one-half of the continent, is more
! dependent upon free access to the other
half than upon all other circumstances
| combined; yet the chief result of the policy
of the departed statesman has been the
| creation of wall over which many of the
cOmmonest necessities of life can only be
exchanged by paying tribute of either gov
crnment often beyond the cost of produc-
ton.
The result is that MILLIONS of acres of
timber are burning and rotting to an ex
tent even greater than consumption for
the want of market in the United States
where the standing timber today is less
per head than in Germany; thousands of
miles of fishing coasts are unOccupied and
wasting because of the need of a free near
by market; mining wealth unequaled in
the world is silent and dormant and dead,
because of the want of access to the great
country next door; agricultural areas of
the broadest and richest character remain
untouched and unproductive, while even
now in the United States, with an immi-
grafton and increase of population unpar-
alleled, Gland hunger exists of the keen
est character and which can not be ap-
peased under existing conditions.
Sixty millions of dollars expended in
Canadian canals, with less than sixty
crafts to navigate them and depending
upon United States tonnage for main
tenance, even in the face of a discrimna
tion against American craft, is an indica-
tion of the policy pursued. Even the
greatest of achievements during Sir Johns
life, the Canadian Pacific railway, while it
is the most comprehensive transportation
agency in the wide world, controlling, as
it does, the means of communication across
an entire continent, could not earn profit
equal to it's axle grease unless it had free
access to the traffic of the United States,
which, strange to say, it is sought to deny
to all other interests.
That these monuments to Sir John will
be of enduring Character is as certain as
the permanence of the great national debt
which this policy has created debt nearly
equal per capita TO the Canadians in time
of prolonged peace as that which resulted
to each inhabitant of the United States in
the greatest of wars, the indebtedness
arising out of which is nearly liquidated.
That in the creation of this debt public |
sentiment in Canada has been debauched
by bribery on the broadcast scale, extending |
even up to the cabinet of the departed |
statesman, is shown by the fact that the
minister standing next TO him in order of
succession for the premiership could not |
be selected because he was being inn
peaChed.