Middletown transcript., 1893-03-04

ber that the very existance of such force
tend to produce the conflict, and mer
spark at any time may start the con
flagration. The strain put upon nations
by the expense of such establishments fol
war precipitates the war to escape the es
! tablishment Ambitious Presidents o.
party leaders will evoke warlike policy to
secure an election. and the institutions o.
the Republic will be subjected to Str lin
that may profoundly alter their character.
Does it not behoove all men of our race,
to hichever country they belong, whether
/ American or Canadian, to avert such CON
/ fiict? Should it come, which God forbid, |
can see for it but one termination.
while slavery was the cause of the re-
! bel.ion. it was not mainly hostility to
| slavery that animated the North in that
contest. The people were nerved to the
last extremity or exertion by the feeling
that they could not permit this country to
be divided into two hostile nations, be-
tween whom war would be ever recurring.
So whenever the same issue arises on the
North it will result in making the English
speaking race on this continent one in
country, one in flag and one in destiny.
1T would be wicked to leave such leg
acy to our descendants. To-day we had to
deal with a, people comparatively few in
numbers.
"The Republican party in enacting the
Mckinley bill, in one respect builded more
wisely than it knew In drafting the agri-
cultural schedule of that bill they took no
thought of its effect upon Canada. They
had in mind only the American farmer,
who said. if you protect the manufactures
we are content if you protect the farmer
also, Against whom the American farmer
was to be protected, and .on whom the
weight ofthe agricultural schedule would
fall no one thought.
sMKINLEY's OBJECT LESSON.
"But that act has had prodigious effect
upon Canada, upon her agriculture, her
mines of iron and coal, her lumber and all
her natural products. 1t has furnished an
object lesson to the people of both countries
alike. 1t was made plain that Canadian
prosperity is wrapped up with and depend
ent upon her freely sharing in the Amer
ican market.
To-day the American people, speaking
through the Republican party, are saying
to Canada: I'VE wish you well; we are
willing to share all our material prosperity
with you, and make you richer than the
imagination of man can conceive, but it is
upon one indispensable condition. Cast. in
your lot with us. .Sever, and forever, your
political relations with Europe. Unite
with your own race and religion on the
American continent. Come into our glori-
Gus union Take each and all your part in
the sisterhood of States. Dismantle your
fortresses and dismiss your ships of war.
Let us Americans have on our continent no
such arbitramenG as this.
6 Far off from European entanglements
secure in our solidarity and our unap
proachable strength, rich beyond the
worlds experience in all in extent of re-
sources and in tile freedom of a trade which
knows only the continent for its limit
Under the dome of our Capitol at Washing
ton will we enact all American laws and |
settle all American disputes; here we will
dwell undisturbed by wars or the rumors
OF war in an unending peace,in happiness
which will yield only to that larger vision
of the poet, but one not to be realized in
our time, nor until some far distant future:
when the war drums throb no longer
And the battle flags are furled,
In the parliament of man
And the federation OF the World.
$50 to day the Republican party of the |
of the United States proudly RENTS this |
great problem to its triumphant rival, |
To-day, through the path marked cut by |
the agricultural schedule of therAcKinley |
BILL the United States commands the future |
of this continent. Will you by its repeal
throw that command away? To-day with |
d complete revocation of the vicious polty |
Of the reciprocity treaty of 1854, the future |
is secure. Gentlemen of the Democrat |
party, will you again throw that security to
the winds? In no partisan spirit do we
eave it to you
BE true to your country and destinies, |
and from none will come plaudits in more
unanimous acclaim than from the Repub-
ican party of the United States"