Washington sentinel., 1900-03-31
breeding New Wars.

IN the SuuOen pdIOSyStA VI AON'
and gratitude to England mani
tested by the Republican party 70
the great assistance she rendered
US in chastising so contemplate al
enemy as effete Spain, one elemen
has been left out, unintentionall:
perhaps, but no less fatefull!'. Tt
Mr. Hav, who has shown suct
readiness to oblige the country o
his affection with slices OF ouI
property purchased from Russia
there may lie no significance, OF
only cause for rejoicing in the part
played by Canadians in the imam
GUS assault upon the Liberties oi
the United Republics OF South
Africa, but to other citizens less
ambitious to become, in the words
of George Fred Williams, "the
little Wisp Of hair upon the erd OF
the Lions Tail, there seems much
to give US pause. Canada is prov
ing herjeli a whelp of the true
Brito n breed. lit be true that her
soldiers, in common with the Irish
and Scotch regiments, are put for
ward in the van. to protect the
British guards, who have so far
lost but 5 or 6 per cent of their
number, leaving the carnage to
claim its victims from the deluded
Celts and Colonials, Canada can
afford to pay the price. She is
stretching her limbs, she is waking
to the necessity OF the strenuous
life, and licking her chops in antic o
ipation of the prey that is to fall
before her prowess. She is rapidly
springing into the attitude Of
rival Of the United States, and,
what is more, she has laid the
Mother Empire under obligations
for which she will not fail to de-
mand requitaI--requital that will
be made. A recent writer in the
WeStMiRStEg Gazette, Frederick
Greenwood, remarks:
Canada has secured the right to be
firmly and courageousIy backed by the
Imperial Governm ent in all she claims,
with Justice, in Alaska. It will be no
Imperial Government now that flinches
from obligation. To do so at this
moment when the Canadians have
doubled their right to protection for
their Alaskan interests, and those inter
ests are threatened anew with arbitrary
treatment, is what gives Canada the
aforesaid advantage and is precisely
what shsrpens American temper-that
is to say, the first APPEARANCE of Canada
as a fig hitting ally Of England.
What England claims with
justice" has been demonstrate
over and over again to the world.
1t is now being demonstrated on a
larger scale, and with greater ir,-
pudence than ever before in her
history, today. She has over 2oo,-
900 men fighting in South Africa
for what she alleges to be the prin-
ciple for which we fought in 1916,
and which we have ingloriously
abandoned-"No taxation without
representation" That is in South
In Canada she is taxing
American miners precisely four
times the amount demanded by
the Boer Republics from the Out
landers, and she not only would
decline to allow the naturalization
of Americans in Canada with the
pToviso that they retain unimpaired
their allegiance to their naive
but she claims American
territory, with justice" And this
claim will be backed, in time, by
the armies which will have re
ceived their training in South
Africa. We may humbly sue for
peace and make larger concessions
than Kruger and Steyn, but it
seems to US that as a people we
have hardly as yet been sufficiently
inoculated with the official virus OF
Saxon alteration. Mean
time the warning has been given.
Will it be heeded2