The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-04-10
sraEIR OPINIONS ARE SOUND
Premier Laurier, Sir Richard
Cartwright and
Others.
ALL GETTING NEW IDEAS.
Plan OF Uncle Sans Govern
ment To Be Copied In
England.

BY the Cunard Liner Umbria, Mr.. J.
+. Hogan, M. P, has returned to Eng
land after visit to Ottawa, the capital
of the Canadian Dominion, where he
had interviews with most of the new
Liberal ministers who were returned to
power at the recent general election in
that important division of the empire,
says the London Westminster Gazette.
To a representative Mr.. Hogan has been
good enough to adumbrate some OF the
ideas and Impressions formed during his
sojourn in the Dominion. Asked what
he thought of the new Liberal govern
ment as body, Mr.. Hogan said:
They are undeniably very strong
combination, and are likely to be rulers
of Canada for considerable time to
come. The premier and chief, the Hon.
Wilfrid Laurier, Is host in himself,
and gives every promise of developing
into picturesque, popular and predom-
inant personality the late Sir John
Macdonald. 1t was largely owing to the
attractive personal qualities of the late
Sir John Macdonald that the Conserva-
tives were enabled to hold and control
the federal government of Canada con-
tinuously for the long period of eighteen
years. Since his death they have gone
all to pieces, and they are still without
a 10 no nfo okoI T.
eye or of inspiring coura go and loyalty
in their parliamentary ranks. Until
they develop new Sir John Macdonald
and the coming man is not yet in
s1ght-Mr. Laurier must necessarily be
the foremost figure and the greatest per-
sonal influence in Dominion politics. lie
has long been in the front rank of Cana
dian orators and debaters, and now he
stands almost unrivalled as a public
speaker on the American continent. He
is one of the most affable and engaging
gentlemen it has been my good fortune
to meet-a perfect type of French Cana
dian courtesy, kindliness and tact. It
is reported that the queen intends maxi
ing him knight, but nature has antlci-
pated royalty in that respect In the
old gentle, chivalrous and best sense of
the word, he is always knight of a
vastly superior order to any conferred
by kings or queens"
when are we going to see Mr.. I.au-
rier in London?"
Il asked him that question myself,
and he replied that he was anxious to
come, but he saw little prospect of being
able to get away until the close of the
approaching session of the Dominion
parliament. He has an immense amount
of work to get through, both in prepar-
Ing his program for the session and dis
posing Of the heavy arrears of admins
trative business. There are several i'm
portant questions affecting both the Do
minton and the mother country, which
might be more expeditiously and satis-
factorily settled in London than in Ot-
Z tawa, I2tably, the project of fast At
D lantic service, concerning which, I have
no doubt, an excellent understanding
would soon be arrived at in conference
{ between Mr.. Chamberlain, Mr.. Laurier
{ md M. Hubbard
Is. Whe were the other ministers you met
besides Mr.. Laurier?"
''Oh. ! had interviews with all who
we're In Ottawa at the time of my visit.
I had q long and interesting conversa-
tion with Sir Richard Cartwright, the
minister Of trade and commerce, and the
Aember Of the government most direct
u concerned with the question of the
\ fast Atlantic service. He belongs to TIE
old guard OF Canadian Liberalism, and
was minister of finance when the party
was last In power. in the seventies.
Eighteen years In opposition have made
him the Chamberlain of British America,
the keenest critic, and the readiest de-
batter in the Canadian house of COM
mons. But in social intercourse he is
the most genial and entertaining of
statesmen, a brilliant conversationalist,
~ ripe scholar, and well-informed stu
dent OF both imperial and colonial af-
fairs. IN early years he was contem-
sporary Of Mr.. Locky, Of Trinity College.
Dublin, and In later life he has ex-
schanged IDEAS with Mr.. Chamberlain
more than once. 4 gathered from his re-
marks that he and the secretary of s.ase.
saoE The set on very we'll to-