New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-15
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CONTINENTAL UNION.
,r coIpw1N SMITHS REPLY TO Mr.. cAsTELL
HOPKINS.


HOPKINS.
Ct. In the November number of THE Forum
-, ar,,c,e by Mr.. Castell Hopkins, of Toronto,
,,roc,aiming and explaining Canadian hostility
-. o,,exation, as he chooses TO call that when
-. advocates. intending that the compact should
,oo and honorable prefer to call Continental
r,,o, He undertakes TO speak in the name or
~ ths neople of Canada, assuming that they
.., a united nation. He is pretty fatty contra
,,,d hv a very eminent French Canadian, MI
mic Frechette in the same NUMBER OF the
.oy,ew Mr. Hopkins pays me some courteo
,.ortion and tells his American readers that L
or, can intensely unpopular Engiishinan IN
O." CT, ,,nnopular and my opinions are among
So. CIRCLE in Toronto who cultivate gentility
-, ,arading hatred and contempt of Americans
~. This I have lad abundant proofs. winch were
:. ,hs same time specimens Of the refined and
..o,rous manners of the circle. Mr. Hopkins
t,r,se,f attempted. during my absence from the
rntrv to blast the social character or
,,o,ca opponent by getting me expelled from
,.,evolent society; and he was one Of a staff
- journalists who sought to fix upon me the inn
s,,o,on Of treason by means Of a document
which they pretended had been stolen for them
,ror q printing office, but which 1 proved in
contestaDly 10 pe " A'' oN''' -'~ o'' $3.50
point Of view
wr HOPKINS thinks that Canada is too large
Cor incorporation in the United States. The
:, o,isiana purchase, he thinks was nothing to
4, Certainly 1t was not If you count as Canada
all the ice and snow. The territory Of Canada.
Afr HOPKINS says, is larger than that OF the
Republic If 1t is. both having been settled
about the same time. how comes it that the
nonuaton of Canada is only 100000, while that
of the Republic is 650000C0? How comes 1t
that there is a larger flow Of emigration from
the larger territory to the smaller? How comes
., that Canada has cities only on her southern
sdpe? Such is the wind on which Separation is
fed.
That the union of Canada with the Republic
woua. by undue extension Of territory, add to
,he danger of disruption is a groundless Tear
SanaratiOn, by creating an adverse power III the
North may some day supply an incentive and a
nucleus to disunion. But who would think OF
seeding from anything at once so benencent ana
majestic as united continent?
Mr. Hopkins designates the Americans as
hostile people, and quotes Sir Oliver Mowat,
whom he is pleased to call a Liberal, but VINO
has just been knighted, with the usual results.
II the two countries were united the Americans
would clearly cease to be hostile people Ine
long series of disputes which Mr.. Hopkins uasi-
caiy recounts would then be forever at an end
Nor need Mr. Hopkins fear war between the
United states and Great Britain when Great
Britain had once politically retired from con-
finent with which she has no political concern
On the other hand, Mr.. Hopkins is at present In
danger of a with million OF Canadans.
who are settled in the United States ana whonl
he and all his party habtually leave out OF the
account Neither he nor anybody else need APP
prehend that Great Britain would go 10 war lor
the retention of Canada Great Britaln Will al
low Canada to dispose OF herself with peilect
freedom Why should she fight for the retention
of a dependency which does not obey ner laws
or government, which would not allow her 10
e tie
fuses to contribute TO her ornaments ana lays
duties on her goods? "a,
Mr. Hopkins proceeds to give list OF spec,nc
objections to union founded on the inlei1ori'y:
not to say depravity and responsiveness OF
American politics and society. AS PROOF Oh
American lawlessness he tells us .ma' .n snr,s
is common throughout the Union lie Seems
20 suppose that the elective judiciary ana 'he
Illinois divorce law parts OF the American
Constitu.ion and would be obligatory on CANADA
II she ioned the Republic He dwels on the
political corruption your side or the nne
while he is blind to the corruption whch pre-
walls upon his own side. It is not Separa9 sn
that will enable US to purify politics or to deal
with the perils Of democracy. MT. HOPKINS aiso
thinks that because the President cannot, IKE
Canadian Prime Minister, dissolve the Iegisa-
ture at his will, as Sir John Macdonald did the
other day on false pretence Tor tne purpose
of Swapping a verdict government In the Uniteo
States is not responsible. He forgets mat
Sanada has a nomination Senate which has
been filled almost entirely with tne hoiiIin Zee.
of single man; that our Constituuon Is I'M
that confederation itself never was submitted
10 the people. -. A., ,os.,o-, NJ
commercial relations would be 100 tedlous. "a
as he AYERS Canada does not want the Amerl.
can market why does the Tory Ministry vi
Canada send Populations TO washington 70 %.
tain commercial treaties? why ala IL at the
last general election use false announcenlenn.
OF reciprocity negotiations as a palt 10 calch
the votes Of the people? 49,. ...o q,
Mr.. Hopkins is obliged to admit that mere 10
such a thing in Canada as an annexation sehtl-
roent hut he represents 1t as contemplate III eH-
tent He may be answered in the words OF MT
Erechette: and this is why, when the woru an
nexation is on the lips Of every man, when we
mention of Independence in political meeting II
The call for unanimous applause, there may ye,
he found politicians who, though neither Dhno
NOR deaf will affirm to the agents OF foreign news
naners that there Is no desire for annexation IN
Canada: that no one longs for independence. ana
the French Canadians In particular WISH put LOT
one thing-to be left where they are, whiie lhe
rect az the world goes on its way. 1t is high une
This legend should be reduced to It's true Sig
niiicance" - ,,o.A, tn
structive as an indication OF the spirit with winch
q senarate and imperialist Canada would be am
mated toward the United States, ano OF the reia-
lions which would be likely to subsist between
them In this respect it may be commenced "
the notice of American statesmen. x
Oxford, Eng, Nov. 90. 1892