The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-21
ENGLAND AND THE ALASKAN
BOUNDARY

The special position of the mother
country in the present negotiations is
an extremely difficult one. She is al
most exactly in the position ofsparentS
who have to settle dispute which has
arisen between a married daughter who
has gone out into the world and has a
house of her own, and daughter who
still remains in the old home. Unless
great patience and forbearance are ex-
ercised on all sides, there is always the
likelihood of very ugly quarrel. What
chance of a peaceful arrangement can
there be if the married daughter takes
the line of saying that she can get on
perfectly we'll with the old people, but
that Marys ways are simply intolera-
BILE and that she wants everything and
everybody sacrificed to her? Things
are not improved if the home staying
daughter retorts by eneers and by de-
claration that she supposes she who
lives at home and does 50 much to help
her parents will be sacrificed as usual
Just because Kate put on such grand
airs, and is overbearng and arbitrary,
and now turns the old people round her
little finger, though she used to abuse
into court" This is exactly the case
with Canada and America. All that this
country wants is to obtain a eettle-
ment fair to both parties. No doubt we
cannot claim to be entirely impartial
in the matter. We naturally look at
things from the Canadian point of
view, and ought to do so. The Cana
dams are part of our own household,
and necessarily we must in the last re-
sort stand by those who are not only
our own flesh and blood, but members
of our own home. If we should ever be
forced to choose between Canada and
the United States (Which God forbid),
we must choose Canada.
But though this is so, and though it
is no good to pretend otherwise, Can
ada must not presume upon the knowl-
adge and press things too far. We
shall be absolutely loyal to her, but
she must also be loyal, we will not say
to us, but to the empire as a whole
She must not think merely of her north
western boundary, but of Australia, of
New Zealand, of South Africa, of India,
and of all our interests in China and
the far East, and what is more, Of all
these mighty interests welded into a
conscious whole. Now, it is for the
welfare Of the empire, as a whole, that
the people OF the United States should
regard us not as foreigners, but as
their own kin, and as willing to do
things for them which we will not do
for foreigners The Americans found
the advantage of this feeling when
they We're threatened with the re-
straint of a European coalition and
when the Continent was made to I'M
derstand that they must not forget the
existence of the English fleet. The
British empire may some day wish for
"a similar exhibition of feeling We are
perfectly well aware, and perfectly
willing to admit. that we have no need
to curry favor with America, and that
we are quite strong enough to stand
by ourselves; but that is not the oues-
ton. Even the strongest Power NAV
be the better for a certain amount of
outside sympathy. If we can be sure
of sympathy in America, we need not
trouble to cultivate it elsewhere. There
fore, we would most earnestly beg Cam