The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-11
CANADA.
Defeat q

r~mpendinS Defeat Of mir wilfrid Laurfsr'
NOMINAL. Jan. lO.-It 70 reported here thss
Sir Wilfrid Laurier will Dissolve Parliament
after the session soon 10 be held and appeal 10
tho electorate for a new lease Of power. The
full term OF the present Parliament does
not expire until July. 1901. Sir VIII
irid Laurier's political ship 10 sinking, and
he fully realizes II. and that further
delay in appealing to the country Will only
make his collapse more certain and over
whelmIng. His most ardent supporters
privately admit that he will be showed under
whenever he appeals to the people. The resuls
OF the late election for members OF tho Pro.
vincial Parliament OF Manitoba. clearly indi.
Gates the trend OF public sentiment. In the
previous Parliament OF Manitoba In a House, Of
forty-three members. there were only ak Con.
servatives. whereas in the newly elected
Parliament there are twenty-ssven Conserva.
tivss and sixteen Liberals.
At the present time Sir wilfrid IL entirely
dependent for his majority 10 the Commons
upon his supporters from the Province OF Quo.
bee. He has lost his following In that Province.
frst, because to gain the support OF the ultra
PROTESTANT. Of Ontario no forced . settlement
OF the Manitoba school question. a. demanded
by them. and sacrificed the French Roman
Catholics. Secondly. because he took into
his Cabinet a renegade Tory In the per.
son OF Mr.. Israel J. Tarts. Thirdly. be.
cause he accepted knighthood. Fourthly.
because he made an absurd demand for q port
on the Lynn Canal. and BY 90 doing lost
the greatest bonn 70 the producers OF Canada
which he had a reasonable hops OF securing for
them. namely. a treaty Of reciprocity with the
United States. He fell into the trsp which Sir
Charles Upper set for him. and dropped the
81 substance for the shadow. and must now suner
for HE folly. He was entrusted with power
by the Canadian electors for the OF.
press purpose Of securing reciprocity.
Filthy. because he has sent troops to
South Africa TO fight Great Britain's
unholy battle against the Beers, and has there.
by established a precedent which will involve
Canada in al. the wars in which Great Britain
may become engaged.
II Great Britain cannot contend alone with
the two little republics in South Africa.
what can she do IL involved In war
with one OF the great powers Of the
world? In tho event Of war with the
United States. Canadians must fight for
Great Britain against more than a million OF
their sons and daughters; and. In addition.
give the great republic Just cause for their
supJukotUon anu tHo iorcipio ohnoAo'ioh w
Canada to the United States. Finally. Sir
Wilfrid's fiscal policy. which was intended TO
reduce imports from the United States and
increase imports from Great Britain. has
proved a allure. The imports into Canada
from the United States have increased far more
rapidly than those from Great Britain.
For Sir Wilfrid to be rejected by the electors
OF his native province will be most humiliatins
and painful. and he must admit that It will not
be unjust when he falls. as fall he will. the
true Liberals OF Canada will again feel free to
advocate continental union.