Year: 1872

equality between the East and West IN tne
second chamber That arrangement was carried Out


Ontario is not only the richest and the most Popou
OF the Provinces OF the Dominion but 1t Ia also py M inc
most advanced intellectually and pohtcaiy' Inc peo
ple OF Ontario, accordingly judge things oy
higher standards than the population OF the otner
inces They know what good government Is anu 'nos
want TO have It, They bring axes 10 the Doininioh
Parliament to grind, and they very Impatient "hen
they zee Quebec axes and maritime axes Deihg pun o
tue Dominion grindstonc. Lastly they are malniy
Protestant and II may the word, evangelical popu
lation and this ia enough Of itself to create Suspicion
between them and the population Of the neighporlne
Province OF Quebec, which is Overwhelmingly Catnoho
The feeling which all THE other Provinces have toward
Ontario is one which has never found artculae ex-
pression but which Quebecer or Nova Scotlan might
perhaps II he spoke out his whole mind express thus


You people In Ontario want 10 move too fast for us ana
TO have things done IN style to which We are not
accustomed. Your ideas very well in theory they
sound very ne but not quite prepared for them
The fact IL, you stronger people than you are
rche and more independent That is all very well Tor
you but we cannot afford 10 fall in with your ways so
like YOU You too dogmatic and domlneering for
you are too conscious OF your own superiority want
70 nave your principles recognized and acted every
where, and We are determined it shall not be So"


Ihe real state OF the case Is that Ontario one OF the
world, is "unequay yoked" with other communities in
which very primitive ideas on all political subjects pre-
Will Hence III tOlows tnat the only POLITICIANS
in Ontario that can coaesce with the majorte in the
other Provinces those who content to put with
the inrnes OF their weaker brethren and wink at
eral things which, theoretically or on strict moral
grounds, are entirely indefensble Lower Canada, or
Quebec, is the great cOrrupter OF Dominion politics.
But what is 10 be done Lower Canada i there, and
can neither he cast of nor overridden. The Lower
Canada members move almost In solid mass at the bid
ding OF man, Sir George Ehenne Cartier, and it is the
invincble distrust which exists between him and the
Ontario RefOrmers or Grs as they are called, which


IL the base the attainment OF power by the latter
Public opinion in Ontario, however, is becoming daily
more favorable to the Grits. or, In other words,
adverse 10 the MacDOnaldCart administration.
Tue general elections for the Dominion Parliament VIII
be held next Summer or Fall and 1t is fancy matter
OF certainty that, In their Province, the Grits
will find themselves very much strengthened. No gain
that they possibly make however, will enable them
TO overthrow repOsing the votes OF five
sXths OF the representatives Of all the other Provinces
The Ontario people feel persuaded will soon begin to
doubt whether, the Federal SYSTEM there is
much virtue in representation 10y population. They VIII
certainly find themselves just far from hayng theiI
full weight in the Dominion as they were under the old
Province OF Canada.