The sun., 1903-11-01
CANADA DEMANDSMOREFREEDOM
Alaskan Decision Has Aroused the People
Premier Laurier with Them.

QUEBEC. Oct 81. Sir Louis Jette and Mr.
Aylesworth. the Canadian members OF the
Alaskan Boundary Commission, who re.
fused to sign the award OF the tribunal, are
to be feed In various parts Of Canada ~
a protest against the finding OF the COM
mission. The feeling OF dissatisfaction
throughout the Dominion at what is per
sistently believed to have been sacrifice
OF Cur ada's interests by the Imperial Gov
ernnent, is growing IN Intensity. Il Is
evident that Sir Wilfrid iaurier tnds it
impossible to attempt to counteract it.
and Ia therefore throwing his Influence
in with the malcontertE.
With the great mass Of the people OF
Car ada at his back upon all public questions,
and especially in this Alaska matter. he
openly announces his intention Of leadr &
a movement looking to loosenirg OF the
bonds which bind this country to the United
Kin gdom. Not only has he declared for
such anne ndments to the Canadiar Cor sti-
tuition as will permit her to make her OWL
foreign treaties. which is regarded here as
the preliminary step toward demand
for complete notiona indepe1 Sercs but
he has promised that when Parliament
reassenables the whole Of the correspond
ence between his Government ard that
OF Geart Britain, in regard 10 the cor seIt
of the Dominion 70 the recent arbitration
will be placed before It, whether Fl gland
gives her consent or rot.
In other words, If the imperial authorities
persist in the refusal which they gave some
time ago for the publication OF the cor
respondence. Sir Wifrid will leave it to the
electorate Of the Dominion to declare
whether they are to govern Themselves
street Nobody doubts, fer a moment.
what the answer of the British Govern
ment will bo, and it is generally believed.
too, that the corresrondence will show
that Sir Wilfrid stood for Canada 5 right
to ratify tho finding Of the commission
from Westminster. In this event there
will certainly srse a loud demand fer
changed relations between this country
and the mother laid.
Among those who are taking fcremost,
part in the movement against England
are some of those who have hitherto, posed
as belon ging to the ultra.loyal elemer
of Caneda's population, The cousin of
Sir Archibald Douglas, x. c; B.. Vice.Ad-
miral in command cf the British North
Quebec, is out with an appeal 10 his fellow
citizens 10 do homer to CGnade's rcr resen-
, ,etives on the commissi On, fCr their re-
fusal to be parties 10 sacrifice OF her m
terests, and declares that the dsv is being
hastened when the whole Of tho North
Amer 'pItI'i'i.' " Io'i .'A'' W .A'
leo 10 the Arctic Ocean. shall be under the
SWAY Of the Stars and Stripes
The rising wave Of dissatisfaction with
ENGLAND throughout TIE length and breadth
of Sanada is moi now flowing as mere res,i.
Of the loss Of what might have been claimed
as Canadian territory, but is rather sttrihu..
table to feeling, inspired bv Sir Wilfrid
Lalriers anxiety to make public his corre-
snondence on the subject with the Imperial
Government. that in the course Of the pre-
liminary negotiations with the United States
the safeguarding Of Canada interests was
altogether sacrificed in order to cement
nride il hurt at the idea OF being thus ueed
as as a cntspaw for the furtherance Of rere
imperial interests. and there is a growing
resolve that unless Canada has more to say
in the future concerning her foreign. as well
az her domestic affairs. il would be prefera-
Bic TO throw IN the imperial yoke altogether.