The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-02
SEES MENACE TO UNITED
STATES IN RACE PROBLEM
AND EXPANSION.
Years and See How World
Gets Along.

the Canadian club of ottawa have
listened to what Dr. Goodwin Smith
says in his last public address. The
venerable historian and essayist is
now in his eighty fifth year, and sell
| dom leaves his home in Toronto.
| Canadians have not always listened
| patiently to the somewhat pessimistic
| prophecies of DR.. Smith, and they en-
tirely reject the destiny which he has
| mapped out for the Dominion, of alb
sorption in the United States; but at
the same time they are proud of the
| venerable philosopher who has made
his home among them for lifetime.
Gladstone and the Civil War.
DR.. Smith took occasion to throw
some additional light upon the much
talked-of Gladstone letter, published
for the first time in his Memoirs of
Gladstone He said:
You may have noted the episode of
the Gladstone letter. Gladstone at the
time when victory seemed declaring
for the south, said that Jeff Davis had
made a nation. He might rather have
said that Jeff Davis had found a ma
ton, for the confederacy was from the
first a nation in all respects, though
born of a sudden disruption. But Mr..
Gladstone was afterward sorry for
north: it grieved the friends Of the
north in England. Gladstone in let
ter to me suggested that if the north
chose to let the south go, thus getting
rid of slavery. there might thereafter
be a union of Canada with the north,
ern states.
1T was probably intended, but was
not so instructed, to make the con-
tents of the letter known to our
friends. l judged it better not to do
this, seeing that the letter would not
have produced the desired effects and
might thereafter have proved embar-
RAISING to the writer. l therefore kept
it to myself and it was destroyed with
the rest of my private correspond
ence before 1 left England. But 1
have a clear recollection of it's con-
tents. Mr.. Gladstone of course took it
for granted that the union, the pos
sibility Of which he suggested, would
be free. No other thought could pos
sbly have crossed his mind"
Pessimistic as to the United States.
The event of which Gladstone spec
ulated did not take place. The free
north, if it is rid of slavery, is not
rid of the race question or of lynching.
The horizon altogether in that quarter
is dark. At present jingoism reigns
with it's strenuous life it's big stick
it's staggering. boastful, agrees
siveness, it's contempt of right. Sup
course and extends to the line of the
Panama canal, taking in a vast alien
disruption; there can hardly fail to be
a change of institutions. If you have
an empire, you must have an emperor.
The Destiny Of Canada.
'As to our external relations all we
can say is, nature will have her way,
She will have her way strive to thwart
her as you will. The action of the
great forces is often suspended by
that of secondary forces, but the
great forces prevail. OF this even
that union jack, on which we are told
to keep both hands is a symbol. 1t
took long to blend those crosses, but
they were blended at last.
zone thing is certain, gentlemen.
Whatever your external relations may
be and however dear may be the tie
to the mother country, on this CONT
nent your destiny is cast. Here is the
field of your duty and of your aspi-
ratiOns. Here, not in Europe, or Afri-
ca, or Australasia, you have to play
your part in the. fulfillment of the
hopes held out to man by the discov-
cry of the new world, the hopes of
happier state of society, lessening of
the terrible inequalities of the human
lot, a government not of force, but of
reason, answering to the conception of
Pym who said that is the best form
of government which does actuate
and inspire every part and member of
state to the common good Those
words, gentlemen, are my political
philosophy.
Democracy On Trial
You have interesting times before
you. Democracy is on its trial 1t has
pretty we'll performed the destruc-
tive part of it's task; the constructive
part remains to be performed. Mean