Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-13
When Canada is Annexed.

Debat, comes out fair and square for
the annexation of Canada to the United
States. provided that the Dominion can
be admitted as states without having
to wait awhile as territories. While
anncxa ton is by no means a probability
of the near future, it is certain that its
prospects have not suffered by the Bit
| ter feeling in Canada against Great
Britain as the result of the Alaskan
boundary decision. 1t does no harm, at
| least for the newspapers of the Domin-
ion, and for those on this side of the
| line, for that matter, to talk over the
possibilities of the union and arrange to
suit their fancy the details of the new
order of things.
| For instance, it is probable that if the
| union should be contaminated tomor-
row, several of the provinces would be
admitted as states, as LIE Debat urges
| There is the great and prosperous pro-
| vince of Ontario, which has popu-
lation of 2.25o,O00 with 1000 miles of
railway with vast fields OF wheat and
barley, great orchards, inexhaustible
forests, and untold mineral wealth.
That would be a state which the entire
nexation comes. Ontario, from it's To-
cation, its population and its wealth
and resources, is better fitted than any
other province for statehood.
East Of it lies the Province of Quebec
with a population almost as large
though differing much in race. It's pao-
pie are noted for their industry and for
their practical endorsement of Presi-
dent Rocsevelt's opposition to race sui
eide The province has the widest
>ersifcation of industry and enterprise
Montreal is one of the few cities in the
Of seaport with those of an inland
port. Quebec like Ontario will come
into the Union a full -hedged state whcn
annexation comes.
The three maritime provinces, New
Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince
Edwards Island, would probably be
combined into one state as their total
populations is less than 100000 anG
their location geographically would
people are lumbermen, fishermen and
farmers of the hardy sort, which would
so far to offset the dregs of southern
| Europe which are being emptied yearly
into New York.
Up in the Northwest we find the great
provinces of Columbia and Manitoba
| where the population is now doubling
every decade and though their re
| sources are still largely undeveloped,
they are contributing already a great
proportion of the wealth Of the whole
Dominion, in minerals, fisheries and
agricultural products. They would
each come in as states when Canada
comes under our flag.
This gives five states carved out o.
| the Dominion and would probably be
the limit, though there are the north
| western territories Assiniboia, Saskat,
| ChaWan, Alberta and Athaba sea, ali
| fast filling with population. Much OF
| it. in fact, is American, but none OF
them are populated enough or enough
developed to become states until they
| have served an apprenticeship as terri
tories if they would gain admittance
to the Union, and this might not be
until Alaska came in and possibly ais
ahead into the future; how far nobody
knows. but it may not be as far as
most of us think.
| Some day it will all come true; 70,
as surely as the sun continues to rise
and set, and this great country of ours
| continues to forge along the Pathway
of progress and power and prosperity
Canada will become part of it, ant
not unlikely Mexico, too. Then the
|
continent, the greatest world power
that history has ever known. The
annexation of Canada will be one of the
| first steps, and when Canada is annex
ed new states will be carved from it as
we have indicated above, with senators
and representatives as the old states
| have, and with members in the cabinet,
and playing it's proportionate part ir
all national matters.
Some day son of Nova Scotia o:
Quebec or Montreal will be President
at Washington. and the present boun-
dairy line between this country anG
Canada will be no more a reality than
the line which once separated the slave
states from the free. The day is COM
ing and no man needs the divine gift OF
THIN PEOPLE