The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-16
FRENCH CANADIAN TALK.
PROVINCE OF QUEBEC MORE THAN
LUKEWARM TO ENGLAND.
Religious Papers Den0unce the EN-.
tire Anglo-saxon Race ~ OPP
pressOrs and Term the United
States an Insolent Republic.

Special Dispatch to the Observation-Disclosures.
OTTAWA. Jan. 15--A great deal of feel
ing has been caused here by violent arti-
Gle published in the official organ of the
Roman Catholic hierarchy Of the prov
ince of Quebec, which bitterly attacks
Great Britain on account of the South
African war. Despite the earnest efforts
of leading men Of both political parties in
the Dominion, and the forcible writings
of such French Canadian pub,icists as Suite
and David, to stem the tide of anti-British
sentiment in Quebec, the French press
for the most part is still outspoken and
alarming in its criticism of Britain and
of Canada's participation in the Trans
vaal conflict.
La Semaine Religeuse, of Quebec, pub
lished under the authorization (as it is
stated in that paper of the Catholic arch
bishop of that diocese, prints long arti-
Gle in it's last issue under the title of
''Anglomania in Canada" After referring
at length to Britains troubles in South
Africa, and to what it terms the indnbit-
able evidences of the decadence of Great
Britain as a world power, La Semaine
Religeuse concludes it's editorial with the
following exhortation to French-Cana-
dams: Lift up your eyes, French-Ca
dams. for the day of your redemption is
at hand. You, beaten and conquered by
England, ever hated and oppressed by the
race unfriendly to you, whose children are
forced to speak the tongue of their OPP
pressors In the schools of Manitoba, you
shall at length see the star of liberty rise
for you. and your rights respected by those
who have so long violated them.
This revenge will be the more complete
IL the United States are involved in the
same punishment with England, as they
have participated in the same crimes and
the same oppression. We have noted the
opposition to the French race, which Is a
part of Americanism. and is. indeed. one of
its principal characteristics IL not it's very
essence. If this insolent republic be hui
inflated with England, and II the English
race be stricken both in Europe and Amer
lea by the justice Of God and man, its
insolent towards the rest of the world
and will leave at last to the French race
the right to develop freely their country
Other interesting portions of La Semaine
Religeuse's article are as follows:
This colonial empire, which extends
over one-half the EARTH does 1t not resem-
Bile the statue of Northumberland. with
the feet of clay? A single stone. loosened
from nobody knows where, might 1t not
reduce to powder this colossus which now
mense colonies; what has she left today +?
What will remain to England in a hum
bred years of her vast colonies of today?
dominated the nations of the earth; is she
not now to be. in her turn, invaded by
hostile hosts? For three centuries she has
the isles of the seas and every plain of
the continents to make laws for all the
people; shall not she one day see hostile
armies fall upon her own coasts and devas-
tate her cities of London, Manchester and
Liverpool?
"At length the peoples are awakening
from their stupor and their torpor with
regard to Albion: they declare her SOL
EMMY the great corruptrix of the earth:
the unjust dominatrix, the queen of evil
they are preparing to place her under the
ban of the civilized world. All this ac-
cumulated hatred Of centuries may sud
denly and br r ,,,i burst in "a terrible
this statue with the feet Of clay. Eng
land is all-powerful just now; she may be
strangely Inundated within short time
She possesses superb arrogance that
seems to defy not only the peoples of the
earth, but heaven itself, Who knows IL
mercy of the nations she has insulted, and
humbly crave that they leave her few
yestiges only of her ancient empire
''Then-and ii is this that we would point
out--the abasement of the English race
may make the Anglomaniacs of Canada
when all peoples shall have burs. through
the bonds of the great dominatrix. the
French Canadians shall continue to endure
OPPRESSION?
SO rapid. indeed, has been the popular
growth of anti-British feeling in the prov
ince of Quebec. and SO strong and out
spoken the expression of that sentiment
among F'reuch-Canadians. that 1t IL not at
all TO be wondered at that the Canadian
government failed to obtain one single vol
unteer from the Quebec battery of .artil-
lery, from which score or more was
expected to Join the second contingent.
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