The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-18
SIR JOHNS MONUMENT.
Ersstus Wimsn's Views Of the Official Acts of
Canads's Late Premier.

TORONTO. Ont, July 17.-In response to
q request for cooperation In New York for
promoting q national monument to be
erected in Canada to SIR John Macdonald.
Erastus Wiman has written to friend in
Toronto In the following terms:
There will be no monument to peroetu-
ate the memory of Sir John Macdonald so
long as tho great barrier exists which
his national policy created between
the EnglIsh-speaking people of the conti-
nent for so long will he be remembered by
the people Of both c0untries This
barrier. the work of man, as completely
Saxon race in this great field of opportun-
ity, as 1t by the hand of God they were d.
vlded by q high mountain, q wide desert, OF
q deep mOrass four Thousand miles long. So
far as trade is concerned the extent
of prosperity IN Canada, occupying one
half of the continent, is more dependent
upon free access to the other half than upon
all other circumstances combined; vet the
chief result of the policy of the
departed statesman has been the cre-
of the cOmmOnest necessities of lite
can only be exchanged by paying
tribute to either government. often
beyond the cost of production.
The result is that milliOns of acres of tim
Der are burning and rotting to an extent
~ u.
of a market IN the United States, where the
standing timber to-day 10 less. per head.
than In Germany; thousands of miles OF
fishing coasts are unoccupied and wast1n 2,
because of the need of free nearby
market; mineral wealth, uneQualrd 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 broadcast and richest char
after remain untouched and nm
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United States, with an immigration
and increase of population unparalleled, a
land hunger exists of the keenesr oharac-
ter. and which cannot be appeased nnder ex-
istIng conditions. Sixty millions of dollars
expended in Canadian canals with less than
sixty craft to navigate them and depending
upon United States tonnage for mainte-
nance. even In the face of discrimination
against American craft is an indication of
the policy pursued.
ing Sir Johns life, the Canadian Pacific
railway. while it is the most comprehensive
transportation agency IN the wide world.
controlling, as il does tie means of
communication across an entire continent.
could not earn a profit equal to its axle
grease, unless it had free access TO the traffic
of the United States which. strange to
say, Ii Ia 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 Profound peace as that
which resulted TO each inhabitant of the
United States in the greatest of wars. the
Indebtedness arising out of which il
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 depart.
ed 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
impeached."