The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-17
CANADA'S FUTURE.
Advantage Which is Lost by Remain
 ing Loyal to George III.

Advantage Which is Lost by Remain ing Loyal to George III.
 There are few evidences of the exist
 ence in Canada of q sentiment favora-
 ble to @ dissolution of the imperial tie
 and political union with the United | States. The feeling that prompted the Dominion to send troops to South Afri- ] ca has been strengthened rather than | weakened by the British governments | prompt recognition of the gallantry of | the Canadian contingent. It is true
 that in spite of a tariff concession of thirty per cent or more in favor of British goods, the Canadians are in- | creasing their purchases of our pro- ducts and are not showing any increase
 of affection for the manufactures of Great Britain. But that only illus trates the old, familiar fact that friend
 ship cuts a small figure in business. The Canadians find that although they
 have to pay much higher duties on our goods, they cannot afford not to buy
 them. They are willing in an en1ergen-
 cy to fight for "the motherland" and
 take their chances as to the casualties
 of campaigns, while they shrewdy pre-
 fer to put their money where 1t will do
 them the most good.
 But there is one Canadian paper, the
 Halifax Morning Chronicle, which, ln it's comments on peace in South Africa
 and the terms on which Great Britain
 secured that boon, seems not to be en-
 tirely happy over the relations between the Dominion and the crown. The
 Chronicle fails to see that Canada has
 derived any material advantages from
 it's costly participancy in the war
 There is something almost pathetic in our contemporary's glance into the far away past, to the days when thousands of the loyal subjects of George III.
 were getting out of his rebellious colo
 nies and putting the Canadian border line between themselves and such of their neighbors as they deemed traitors. Canada got deal of good stock in some of those fine old Tory families. If we could divest our minds of prejudice we could look back over the century and a quarter that has elapsed since that Tory exodus and discover that loy- alty to King George was not incompat- ible with the strictest integrity and highest sense of honor; that the dier- ence between the loyalists and the pa- triots was question on which good and true men might honestly and hon. orably differ. But we are getting away from the Chronicle and it's retrospect. Our contemporary says: Had our forefathers thrown in their lot with the other American coonies at the time of the Revolution, Nova Scotia would now be a greater Massachusetts. The Do- minion would have five fold its present population and wealth..
 Canada has lost much through that old mistake, and will continue to be q heavy loser as long as she persists in 1t. That however, is her own affair The United States contemplates the sit- uation with serenity It will hold out the glad hand when Canada desires to come ill and be happy with us Mean while, this republic will continue to frame it's tariffs in its own interest, leaving Canada absolutely free to do the same, We cannot give to Canada any of the advantages which nature has bestowed upon us or our enterprise has created. But she can get free trade with all the people of all our states by becoming a part of our Union. That would not atone for the old mistake over which the Halifax Chronicle la ments, but it would put an end to the | depressing operations of that error.-- Washington Post,