Middletown transcript., 1893-03-04
FUTURE OF CANADA.

What will be the future of Canada in re-
lation to the United States? venture the
belief that the time is not far distant when
Canada will do this thing and unite her
people, her territory, her fortunes and her
destiny with the great republic OIL her
south.
"She will do it because it is her interest
to do it. She cannot afford to be divorced
from the American market. Professor
Goldwin Smith has well said that the
largest measure of free trade ever enacted.
By it 65 100000 people exchange the pro-
ducts of an empire stretching over many
degrees of latitude and many degrees of
longitude without let or hindrance, OBJ
structed and ferreted by the barriers of no
custom houses or hostile tariffs. The COM
merce on the northern border alone, pass
ing in majestic flow by the doors of your
own beautiful city, surpasses in magnitude
all that is carried by the Suez canal to
Europe from the tabled orient
"The American market is the object of
the wonder, the envy and the covetous
attack of every other country in the world.
With it as weapon, under the direction of
that great leader whom sorrowing people
has just laid away, we have broken down
the tariffs erected by Germany and France
against our farm products, we have enlarg-
ed our trade with South America, and
hoxy Ioi6 ho Trl a.
QUESTION OF WAR
80 long as Canada exists a dependency
of Great Britain we are liable to be involved
in the exigences of an European war.
Canada is for Great Britain to defend She
can contribute nothing to the defence of
Great Britain. So long as by retaining her
hold upon Canada she remains military
power on this continent, SO long is Great
Britain a continuing threat against our
peace. Because of this we are thrown into
practical alliance with England's foes.
by reason of her antagonism with Rus
sia, at Constantinople and in India, and
with Francein Egypt, England is to-day
silent partner with the Dreibund made up
of Germany, Austria and Italy. By reason
of ofEngland's retention of Canada, are we
bound in a common interest with Russia
and France against England ahd the Drei-
bund
"While Canada remains with the stunted
growth of 100000. we can afford to regard
her proximity with comparative equini- |
nifty. To take possession of her in over.
whelming force i'll case of war would be a |
task of comparative ease, though the yawn-
ing fortresses of Halifax, Bermuda and |
Esquimault would meanwhile subject our |
seaboard cities to ransom or devastation, |
and our ports and commerce to blockade so |
long as We remain lacking in adequate navy |
and seacoast defences. Detroit would again |
become strategic point around which the |
tide of battle would rage.
"But neither the American nor the Can |
adian people can contemplate with equani-
nifty Canada filled with twenty millions, of |
thirty millions, or fifty millions of people
under flag alien, possibly hostile to the
United States. When that day comes it |
will bring with it profound. change in our
both as to our general policy and |
our common life. Standing armies will
arise on both sides, in place of the present
small peace establishments, and we will Be
armed to the teeth. Great fortresses will !
be built along the border, while Detroit,
Chicago and all the lake cities from Buffalo t
to Duluth will become frontier cities, in
fact requiring to be fortified and subject to
all the vicissitudes Of war.
when that day comes we will have in.
upon this continent the condition
in which Europe is involved under what is
called the balance of power" To-day we
see England staggering under vast armies
and military and naval establishments ex-
ceeding any in the previous history of man
kind.