The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-30
ROYAL VISITS TO CANADA.
The Forum.

The Forum.
A hundred and fifteen years have pass
ed since the visit of Prince William. VINO,
first of the royal family, saw the prov
inces in their formative stage Then the
future OF the country was doubtful in the
extreme. England's empire in America
had been broken by the defeat OF Corn
wallis at Yorktown, and not a few Eu..
ropean statesmen believed that she was
not able to maintain her dominion for
many years in the valley of the ST. Law
renee. The coming of the Loyalists saw
ed her in North America, while the en-
ergy and enterprise of her sons eventu-
ally surmounted what was only a tenn
portry check, and restored her to i'm
perial greatness.
Now, in the beginning of the twentieth
century, another royal prince is about
TO come to British North America, which
has developed in 10 years into a fedora
ton with territorial domain almost
equal to that of the powerful republican
nation which sprung into existence i'll
1888. During this period the population
or Canada had increased from 220,OO0 souls
TO upward Of 100000, the trade from
Slo'OOO,OOO to $3.50, 100000; the revenue, which
was practically nothing, to over $50, UUO,-
U0O, apart from the revenues of the re-
spect1ve provinces which must largely
increase the aggregate of the public re-
sources Education of every grade Is
dlfused far and wide; railways span the
country in every direction; canals connect
the great West with the Atlantic sea-
board; an elegant order of architecture
illustrates the growing taste and wealth
OF the people; culture is being more wide
ly spread, and the public legislation
shows the capacity of the public men
for self-government
me people of every nationality within
the Dominion of Canada stand on the
same platform of equal rights. 1t is this
happy condition which has made it nos
SIDE Tor Sir Wilfred Laurier-a brilliant
man OF the race which occupied a posi-
tlon of lnferiority in the days of the Duke
OF Kent and evoked his deep interest
and sympathetic attain, with the an
proVal OF all, classes, creeds and national
ltles, the highest office in the gift of the
people and to give emphatic expression
IN the case of the South African war
to the determination of Canadians TO
MAINTAIN the interests of the empire at
all hazards
ouch questions of taxation and such Ig-
norance OF colonial conditions as precip-
nated an American revolution; such blum
uers as aggravated the political Difficult
lies OF canada previously to the con.
ceSslon OF responsible government-these
can never again occur under the wise
coion!al system which was adopted dur
ing the Victorian era, and which gives
loll expansion to the political aspirations
OF self-governing people. The relations
4ietWeen Great Britain and her dependen-
cles are now governed by just such Or n
clples as were first suggested by the sa-
saclous Loyalist, Gov. Hutchinson. more
Cnaa a century ago, but which it took
hhgHsh statesmen many years to under
staho ana carry ut AS a natural Sc
quence OF correct understanding of fine
reiatlons that should exist between an
imperial state and it's dependencies. Can
ada is now ready, like the colonies -.
AUSTRALASIA in the hour of imperial me-
cessltles, to contribute from taxes raised
ny heF own legislature adequate means
Ior the defense of that connection which
vas ruoely broken in the case of the old
thirteen colonies through the failure of
statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic
70 understand the basis on which colon
lal selt-government should securely resi-