The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-10
MUCH TALK OF ANNEXATION.
CANADIAN JOURNALS STILL DISGUISE
ING THE DOlfINION'y FUTURE. 4
A Disposition to Regard tho Friees OF CeuA-
moditics and the Wages or Labor Rather
than n emOries OF IAcnheim md Waterloo.

A Disposition TO Regard tho Friees OF Con.
noditics and the Wages or Labor Rather
than n emOries OF Ihcnheim ma Waterloo.
OTTAWA. Dec 0.-The Canadian press do not
scom inclined to call halt to the froe discuss
sion they have entered upon regarding Can.
ada's future. From tho leading city daily to
the backwoods weekly. they oil want to have
their say. and they are having it.
Tho Waterloo Advertiser says: 1T will not
do to claim that Canada has no annexation.
lists. The Tory policy has been making for
annexation In tho past five years so that the
woods are full OF them. The prairie provinces
and the provinces down by the sea are all
strongly tinctured with on annexation sonti.
ment. and tho feeling seems to be
spreading. In Montreal audience OF
5000 one nieht last week nearly 1000.
including the best business and professional
mon OF tho metropolis. voted for political
union with the United States. Here In the
eastern townships there are to-day ten an.
nexa,ionists where there was not one decade
ago. The policy of high taxation and trads
restrictions. the cruel cxactions Of the red
parlor." the Canadian Pacific Railroad monop-
oily and the general disagreement OF our
Tory rulers are fast rushing the country to
that strait whore the people in sheer des.
peraton wi II seek relief in a radical change
@ ssh r.ie ncr 81 br nsx hs
themselves in what Mr.. Armstrong. President
OF Tory organization in tho Most, APPLY
union outright"
>, The namil!Tn T.mss, in discussing the sltaa.
care for canada: how many hours sleep would
Gladstone lose over our misfortunes. or how
with us over our nrosperityi CANADIANS have
to Darn their own living. to build and main:
e.. TIN n"oS own h Ms sR5a h .aE, ds's
gainst ourselves In order 10 please somebody
on the. other side OF the ocean is no; lust tho
br.a live question. the dear old motherland, the
old ilnE. the Queen. the memory OF Blenheim.of
tion. Prices vi barley. fruit. and animals. the
wages Of labor. the scarcity or plent ifulnass OF
eos Of s srp noe viii aa tic t
do with tho acceptance or the rejection u an.
neNatmn than any IDEAS of sentiment. II SIR
Macdonald was for the British connection. he
cannot Kill the idea for a change Of political
ing the repeal or the substantial reduction OF
the Canadian customs. cspecially those upon
The situation is presented in the followine
sentence by tho l'undns lont.l Hnnnrr: Polit.
sal union Is the POLICY ct despair and only to
failed to bring about hetterment Of Canada
The responsibility for the growing undsrcur-
fairness re placed at the door of the Govern
mSnt at Ottawa Their policy has failed to do
the exodus and improve the. condition OF the
people. Let them remove tho cause OF dis
the burdens OF the people. and these ebui.
litions OF feeling in favor OF annexation will
speedily dlsanre.aar. ro ,,o oo, -, ,r,,.,,r
about 4 chang. in he condition OF things In
Canada without giving way to DESPAIR. The
in their own hands; and when they are pre-
pared to say that they are not satisfied with
turn out the Ministry and PUT in ono to their
liking In its place