The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-03-16
One Of Our Tory Canadian Friends.

It will be remembered that during the
canvass preceding the last general election
In Canada, Sir JOHN MACDONALD Quoted the
farmers in Ontario by proposing to our
State Department. to enter into negotiations
regarding treaty OF reciprocity. So. too.
the other day. when twenty-five by-elec-
tons were pending. tho Tory Government
Mt ottawa had recourse to the same trick.
sending Commissioners to Washington to
talk nbout reciprocity. and recalling them
as soon as the elections were over. On both
occasions We were assured that, II we really
wanted a free interchange OF products with
Canudn, we should look not to the Liberals.
but to the Tories: that. in other words.
"ConL1N was the friend. not SHORT"
If any evidence were needed to disclose
the real feelings Of the Canadian Tories for
this country. the evidence is Forthcoming In
a recent telegram from England. It ap-
pears thnt at dinner given in London on
March 10. by tho Association Of the Cham
bers of Commerce. Sir CHARLES UPPER.
Canada's High Commissioner In England.
made speech which excited tumultuous
applause. He told his English auditors that
"by her present policy Canada prevented
New York and Boston from becoming COM
mcrcial capitals, and with the aid OF the
Home Government she could still further
encroach upon the prestige Of these cities,
and make ono Of her own seaports the
greatest outlet in the world for grain" Sir
CHARLES added mysterious threat which
was heard with thrill of satisfaction. de-
clarinS that lit would not DO long before
the people Of the Dominion would show
I.os, t,,Nn prs%
empire by striking tho United States a
vital blow
These views. intended for British con-
sumption, will interest the people in Wash
ington. who Mt tho outset received the
bogus Canadian Commissioners with con-
siderable eomplacency. They do not sur
prise us in the least. as we at once detected
and exposed the insolent attempt to make
our State Department the catspaw OF Can
adas Tory politicians. Neither are we
worried by the eXultant terms in which Sir
CHARLES TUprEE vaunts the damage al
ready inflicted on American seaports. nor
by the sinister threat Of worse injury to
come. 1t is not in the power OF Canada, by
any policy conceived or carried out at OF
tawa, to impair the commercial ascendancy
of the city OF New York upon this continent.
That power Is vested solely in the Congress
OF tho United States and we regret to say
that it is exercised. when Congress refuses
to enforce the provisions Of the Interstate
Railway act against tho Canadian Pacific
Railway. 1t is that corporation which con-
tributes the sinews Of war to the Canadian
Tories. OF whom Sir CHARLES UPPER Is the
real chief. Yet the Canadian Pacific Rail-
Il IfNE ,.,I s,,p
Federal statute referred to were vigorously
carried out against our avowed and boast
full enemies. It is for the American people,
through their representatives at Washing
ton, to say whether they will continue to
enrich the financial hackers of men like Sir
CHARLES UPPER. who brag in England OF
the losses tn which the connivance OF Con-
gress has permitted them to subject Amer
lean common carriers.
As to the vital blow which. according to
Sir CHARLES TUpPER. the Canadian Tories
contemplate levellng ut the United States.
we arc Ut II less to discern the significance
OF tho menace. Perhaps he refers to the
war ships which. under the guse Of vessels
intended solely for Custom House purposes.
are said to be in course OF construction in
the Canadian lake ports. Forewarned IL
forearnled. and perhaps it might be well to
look into tho matter of these alleged war
ships IN disguise. but we confess ourselves
unable to feel much trepidation about the
aggressive power Of the Dominion on our
inland waters. We seem to recollect that
tho Canadians collected n fleet on Lake
Erie IN the war of 1912. and that there was
not much left of it after Commodore PERRY
struck it. No. it is not in tho power OF Sir
CHARLES TUprER or any of his political
friends to alarm the United States: but
such IL speech as that made in London Is
useful. because it reveals how fully the
Canadian Tories share tho malignant
hatred OF this country felt by the British
Conservatives.