The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-01
THIS is REAL DIPLOMACY
Canada Will Make Grand Effort to Abb
sOrb Newfoundland at Once.
The Object Is 10 Get Control of the Import
Trade and of the Rich Fisheries So as to
Further Embarrass the United States.
spec,al to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
OTTAWA, Ont, July 91.-The absorption
of Newfoundland by Canada lie beginning
to be looked upon as not far distant and
already agitation with that end In view
has been started here and in Montreal.
There is every reason TO believe that the
ing and lending official countenance to the
scheme. though for palpable reasons pub
licity is as much as possible avoided at the
present juncture. The time, however. Is
considered suspicious for such a consum-
nation, inasmuch as Newfoundland and
Canada at present are on very friendly
terms, whereas a month ago each regarded
the other with dstrust and unfriendly
acknowledgements smarting under
the humiliation of having the outcome OF
the BOnd-Blaine negotiations disapproved
of by Great Britain at the suggestion of
Canada and Canada waxing aggressive
towards the island because of the prefer
entail duties granted by Newfoundland to
the United States on breadstuffs and other
goods.
The prompt manner in which Canada,
from the Atlantic TO the Pacific, responded
TO the call for aid when the city of st.
Johns, the capital of Newfoundland, was
laid in ashes was the stepping stone to the
present annexation movement. Over S1-
00O.C00 In money and kind have already
been subscribed towards the relief of the
townspeople of St Johns, and the Can
adian government has exerted itself un-
commonly in connection with raising and
forwarding this fund. Many hOneyed mes
sages have passed between the Canadian
and Newfoundland Premiers, Sir John Alb
bott and SIr William V. Whiteway, re-
spectively. The Canadian Premier Ia much
too clever to take advantage openly of the
island colOny's present distress to press
matters ID q point.
AN UNsEEMLY MOVE.
His government has, however, chosen
certain members of the Newfoundland
colony In Montreal to follow up the en- ten te
cordial established with view OF bring
ing about confederation of Newfoundland
with Canada. Thus, for the present. the
hand OF the federal officials at Ottawa is
not apparent, but q still hunt is being made
and properly instructed agents having q
full knowledge of Newfoundland will 90
forward with the relief SHIPS remain on
the island and establish there propaganda
having for Its object immediate closer rela-
tlons and ultimately annexation between
Newfoundland and the Dominion, as we'll
as to seek to turn the thoughts of the New
foundland people from their present en-
deavors to establish closer trade relations
with the United States.
This movement on tho part of Canada
may properly be called the third chapter
IN her attempts to bring Newfoundland in
the Dominion confederation. For q long
period, and for various reasons, Canada has
laid schemes for that desideratum. The
first effort was IN 1869, when the confedera-
tl0n of the provinces, which now make up
the Dominion of Canada, first took o tan
gible shape But the island colony refused
all overtures. Again, in 1888, whom the At
lantic fisheries treaty was concluded be-
tween the late Sir John McDonaids gov
eminent and Secretary Bayard, the Domin-
ION PREMIER made overtures to Newfound-
land to cast in her lot with Canada. Offering
TO assume the public debt of the island,
some $2O0o,00O. At that time again New
foundland wlthstood all offers. and in 1890,
two years later, the island engaged in
negotiations with Secretary of State
Blaine for reciprocal trade relations with
the United States as against the Dominion
of Canada. Becoming alarmed at the re-
srlts reached In these negotiations and at
the spirit of annexation with the United
States displayed on the island, Canada put
stop to the negotiations by inducing the
British government to veto the Bond
Blaine treaty, and since then the Dominion
and Newfoundland have been pursuing a
policy of coercion toward one another
Now. however. since the fro at ST. Johns
another and more friendly spirit has been
engendered, and, taking advantage of this,
Canada is again attempting To bring New
foundland into union with the Dominion,
fisheries and the island markets. and incl
dentally providing another means of re-
taliation against the United States BY the
imposition OF increased custom taxation on
American importations and the enforce
ment of Canadian regulations on American
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