The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-17
CANADA.
Material and Political Discomfort that Works
for Anne xntIon.

antcrtnI and POLITICAL INSTRUMENTATION Norh
| for Annexation.
OTTAWA June 16-I had talk the other dal
with the Hon. Thomas Ballantyne. Speaker o
the Ontario Legislature. The Legislature Il
Liberal. but the province sends q majority o
Tories to the Federal Parliament Mt ottawa
The explanation OF this seeming anomaly II
that In Canada the Federal Parliament dis
| tributes tho constituencies to suit itself. Will,
| the provincial Legislatures have each distri
| button OF their own. The Federal franchise
differs from the provincial franchises, and the
| campaign issues are different. too. Mr.. Bal
| lantyne is ono OF tho oldest Liberals In
the Legislature. and has a reputation or
both sides OF tho Atlantic ms q maker
and exporter OF cheese. Tho Liberals at otta-
wa used to advocate froo trade in manufactures
as well as in natural products with the United
States. which would have involved tariff dis
elimination against British goods. But Sir
| Oliver Mowat the Premier Of Ontario. and other
| rcactionarics Identified with it. have forced the
| party to abandon that platform and fall back on
| tariff reform. which tho Tories PROMISE and
such reciprocity with the United States as
shall not neccssitato discrimination against
Britain, which Is the sort Of reciprocity tho
Tories arc eager for. In short. there is now no
perceptblc dfrorencc between the Liberal plat
form and tho Tory platform. Mr.. Ballantyne
said in substances:
Tariff reform is all very we'll in its place. but
what tho farmers OF Ontario want above every
thing else is free access to tho American mar
ket. both for buying and selling: that is to say
the widest possible measure OF free trade with
their neighbors. Tories keep telling us to send
our stuff to England. but England is only q Sec
ond best market for much that VIC produce. 1t
was shown by the President at the Farmers
Institutes meeting in February. 1852. that the
year before the Mckinley tariff went into effect
Canada exported horses. sheep. poultry. barley.
beans. hay malt. potatoes. eggs. hides. wool.
flax. rye hemp tobacco leaf. and canned fruit
tothe value Of $4,000 900 to the States. not
outstanding the duties levied by tho American
tariff then in force. Our exports Of these pro-
ducts in the same year to the free British mar
ket amounted in value to only 100000. That
tells the whole story. Obviously the man who
says that the free British market is q moro
profitable, market than free American mar
ivh, M"uid ns Tor such articles does not know
Farmers arc determined to get free trade with
the states evcn II the price should be political
loyal parties They Know that tarif III reform g
however desirable In itself. will not remove
product and as Tor reciprocity. they do not be-
ileve that u, Democratic Congress is going to
this continent BY allowing CanaIinns to share Te
in the material advantages OF American cit
iSsnshp Without 5eGurnG them 70 bear its
irons Of Industry and intend to run candi-
dates OF their own.
content is universal. Counting the chill drcn
OF French Canadian parents over one-halt the
tinted Staes Ths Exodus oes Is n9w at ane
stantly accelerated rate Newspapers are oom-
that the Gssrry have in the past done
canada E.rue. Montreal weekly. denounced
their conduct after the surrender to the British
refused to receive the victors With open arms arms.
and blamed them severely for preventing the |
II the war o., indep"ndenco and the 1 war I" Of
i III It also Is, blamed them for dissouraeing
declares that the hsrare Snys who
he provinces in 1857 wers %skes to pro- Q.
denim unanimonsy has sseB Be %nuia c GUn
DECEPTION. It has driven q million Of our
the frensh.speakinG minorities in Man itob"
and the Territories at the mercy OF an AFRO
otheir mother tonrue and deprived them ns use of
educational rights guaranteed by tho Consti-
Z is no longer a country fit for French
The Mckinley tariff is auementing the flight
md bulky ones that viii not bear :ft rans ISatae
,ntte. and horses. Amid the growing poverty
he people are demanding relief from tho co
siastica!! exemptions from local taxntion.
81 al the property II Montreal
e9ep tn TX TTTa
irtuhily bankrupt and the Dominion Govern
ons cSnISt 419rd to saanndeE any more
I doubtful utility; The friction between
las greatly increased, owing to the a ap.
.earance OF an anti, French movement
bnHn McGn nafs Tory wh" eTpsated
ucceed Sir John Macdonald. Thirty per cent.
S wn9s ?f h caR2da is French
er cent. The French are losing Influence et and
ko La Pdti,e advocate annexation as the oniy
hing left for the race.
Liberal convention. to be composed OF dele
atcs from every, province in the Dominion, I
i!eets here or, tho 20th. Sir Oliver Mowat and
Is %Gg holders have resolved to exclude the
,yalty e britain at tho fdrefrant. but " the
me OF them has been selected to move reso-
,t2n delaying FER the political Independence
nce he got his title from the co i H ones fn
as done as much shouting for tho British .
liberals on the other hand. and good many /
usipn that the tine is ripe FOR indepen denee. i
icy are overpowered by tho reactionary ele.
tent they will turn in and help the Conti-
entail Union men: There will probably he a c
ve- cornered fight at tho comm general cleo.
on between the Tories. the Mowat Liberais
,e Patrons, the McCarthyites. and the Conti' .
entail CnioniSts lacked by, the Advanced :.
LIBERALS. But the final struggle to decide the | .
lturc OF Canada will be between the Cont" i
entail party and the supporters Of British h
IN nection within the OF her four. The evoiu. q
on OF these two sides Is going on. and they | 4
III soon be face to face provided Congress
oeps it hands of tho farm schedule OF the
cKinley tariff. T. !