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THE CASE INTI
THE SIGNAL: (NODRRICHt ONT.,
'RSDAY, APRIL 14. 181L
BIAKR want '`iAAfte�kre of lead "
eaters herself 'aye we shod& ileues • pert
w should atoll have what, jed=iryt IC;
their fervid utteranur , we would flu prey,•
d of, namely , our (waive skim, •aur (Lad
awesome., Lade, .males, rocks, loteIy had
saa�rs b•bhl►.g breaks, and rallies riven,
•sd:voryth►og eke that engages the poetic
buoy and tires the patriotic breast. Kant
aeaumte,t, $m I am net prepared to 'situate that
the word ever sigutfie.l attauhmcut to an la -
Malta is
Y STATED
me. ■1•.a, comsat Crews Ataerarr .1 Nt.
aria, &sae she Tr/tswse a. ewe Moe
mum the Wee oy the vanes ser NIretewl
lases Kith the r Moses -"like mew
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tem awe t saw N .'ase. '•
stonemasons
• last
dee
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wanes priatuet._ TMl
appear In that
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the tall taut
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pre
with sad; foint
1stt • putt
Mr. Myers aid
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YmMna- !■.seal
Mr. Myas, Q- C., Carty Attorney
Duferin• has addrMrsd ohs following o
este to Hee iawlrrd �s .
MY 1)a►a IW :—p %that
countryman,uutwif R your vola
tory retirement hie priests Ida, are reel
unable w a
regard yea the light otb
thea that d putblkpte�ty. 1 presume
pablioly address _ea trilbeat previous i
tuna den to yea sr knowledge 05 your pa
and without ka.whg year mows oa
subject mntm
as Ibis oomntion
Having, web d the mune ho
some tens.
the otupsedoas financially esti
otherwise, whi*a have cheerfully mad
during the last tweatpyews* the interest
your oouatiy, earl Y Mader of your P�
1 cannot bthik that you would *echoer
fully respond diet, sentry's calf to lead
e great .1uu aI d
that would spetl
secure its eildil.. The occasion,
notnthe cats. . this Inter is the me ad
dressed by the leader at the Liberal
Mr. Mowat, L
. Hoa Mr. Mac
Globe of the 14tu
retention of u
I bad waited
Mare capable than
placing before Us
who desire to se
destiny of
os'•
ouse►L1- oma Tas • iron s Lsr
of which oke falls Inh $ bet a. one as
gamin lo do so, willies t attempting to re
to
ply twill,o that htMer><foal impelled, how
ur
Mei
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arable pre/esiea •e »f
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party in our 1'rowboat
w lees admired
helm , published
amt., strongly
present polities*
tieal
some tame fo seas
I to assume the trek
public the ',twit 111
tyre for Canada its
ever
sslf. r In ki
d the leader elf
dialectitiaa, rs
Mowat nail. as lI' pfattdam appeal for
the continuance 1 our preheat status as a
mere oolouy to the dragon of party spirit,
knowing fell wait She inexorableness of its
claim for all.giam Prem iL votaries. Per-
haps the geese." liefielbs, although trade
naoos.ciooaly, bthe.is.gth and intensity
.t the feeling for tenthental union was
contained in that combined as it
was with what I to be erroneous
views .s to what aseasitetse loyalty. It is
because we have fem you so recently em-
ancipate yourself hem party .hackle., in
spite of the pia that, we know the rend.
eelasunder .t old lies meet baye ocosmioa
, that ths yoaMr nismbrs of the Liber.
al party, who have adapted the cauoo of C.
U.. naturally Lek Uel you as a probable
Leder is this motgthMiv which by the
lurclui-mosabarramm, IS TH1 1.A4T cr.%-
000
of the oouetry$ Megeation, 11 not actual
decay, has bass termed to the frost, sooner
perhaps them It mfOkt, otherwise have been,
but which, by it intrinsic mritw, must
sooner or later haw inevitably assumd that
position. For we .kenos conceive of you
embarking *gain es the w of ('aoadi•n
poliggles
overthe�Ce tl� untnepin the t r ogrnlmues
that
are now elf. Ma NK NOW! Cai.disa
pdttieal life, es bag se w remain a mere
ed pendency, er OfrMpt se the leader of .
ggrreea&tt
moven.* for national exhume.
Whilst IesIow lois. no Liberal withhold. his
.<.ctionate
Mr. Mowat,
Cartwright, or
tight obey are
the task my
the keen instincts
the .kill of tbe
of him• Mr
item mob leaders as
ted Bir Richard
to a/Violate the .obis
In for pure govern
meat just I.iL Yea. sir. know, how-
ever, that to s*MIs 1 the worthiness of that
object, bow implliffik $ is by comes there-
of to inspire .yW * torsional eee4meet,
especially is a esei ry trhsr'e twenty years
of Macdahs's.= W M Mooed the moral
prosptioss that bent somehow is ohs
very knot thing le dsaYels. In all the dimes -
Mao by .dveenis alt wield servitude,
Oars is ea -Dwainen that thaw who w
to favor of ooaties tai safes are tis die -
It is emsitieg this pram
pr
W that my whatever can be
furnished for then
A►Ttwt, Tei VW LOUIS, M THE ,eons
for • perpstsMl . alt auk settee, white has
proved so groat a /moth.. Yet the pesakm
te the miry thing that the C. U.'. smrougly
deny, but eeatead an tee oaslsery that
cbsir otgoeeets ate Ilia di/loyalists. How
they oma identify Welly with & demo for
political attachment tea a eo.ntry 3,000
muss away, end allgaiy - with a greater
leve for ase'. owe*eerMii.g lb" w ane.
not loot to the trme.ce of the word,
cas sdeetaod. Tisk Pro.otYPes were
disosva•d by the hernagrad Gulliver in one
UlMpetianc, whom Wade were so occupied
with teethes speeedeMene r else or two end
)ectm that. with eau.[ lair eyes torsed in-
ward ted the ether to in someh, their
vises s.oessadly benme d esort.d and ea
natural. To feel grttirr Mlsfty for • dis-
tant oneetry tis to ewe's own winch ie
ever precast with rte is ens of ti.ee (revs
to the .east' weir hes it parallel
ia the
eonth•
sha
physical world. whore t orgies
tai odea'. are as ilMlIve list, they become
with whistle �l/tetMyd Isupsightadowe
mil distinguish distance,
_
whited bttwded r lases Sale .ear- With -
eat eta..1%pda( to tresis the derivation .r
history of pas wr'd,whl% is tee tack rather
for tits padoli est, 111, map he that is N.
proems of evehtMsls. 1s woos= with many
Maar were L the L.gsrlgb
utilities. use UMW is ttrS00 ' 5M.ntrer a.
WOW.
It esrtwhIy both V D w hae the maw
tag ohm these advoseteag esleeli&I servitude
appy to it ♦ powder fairly accurate
dd.Misel .f ohs word probably le
' Want te eats wlst1llo: 0 They, how
ewe, Debi k to s powdoodiar pohtieal cvsu.
sseWah teed le the Maga 1. qun, however i
ds sidol shot soodMI1t may he. The ,
pret'e esinsetlirls
as ethos shore . airs with tool eh dead,I
Who wow tel Mama hath .eta,
?Ms Is .ty stir., nip net,ee bed,
Woo wadi by Una g the
dcpender►t form of go.. ant a addtti..0
to love of the land itself with its varied
feature., what apptloaden, 1 would ask,
would it have to our present slates as a
mere dependency - and where would he the
disgrace of
art miasma ist.Y. evtT]t1. Mtr MITA AcrrrNER
at'\TR%,
WW2 a 000cetiyest elev&ttos of huu status
into a part of an to.lependent nation. When
in the past conquering mother country
meant the subjugation of its people with all
that this implied, namely, lura of oatmeal
and individual liberty and 'resiliently of life,
awl signified abject slavery, Lite terms
loyalty, patriotism and indepeedenoe had a
sigatticsoce they do not now possess where
the inhabitants of • oonquered oosntrr at
all events of those where Auglo Saxon ideas
prevail, as witsem the Frewc:h le ljw►se,
experience merely the euhstitutioe of ow
flag for another with preeervtiue of
the polities' and ladividual rights of the
conquered. aid sometimes even as actual in-
crease of those rights. Although the senti-
ments engendered by the ortguial cause may
hare survived had the present consnlue.oes
of absorption of a foreign land been always
ea allueded to, can anyone doubt that
the words would have denoted something
quite different' It is an axiom among those
who entertain aspirations for their 'vestry
higher than three of a pro -colonist that the
kyli.ts are those who place Canada's in
cerise, above all others and the disloyaiuts
are those who awsider them of
trilling value when dissociated from those
of some other nation, whether that other be
great Rritain or the United States.
1T 1a A i.t0E\TAni.V. eincrwifrl\r'Y,
complimentary neither to oar wisdom nor
our patnol.ern, that Canada is probably the
only country is the world where tee suggest
that her interests are paramount to those of
any other would invite insult and perhaps
violeaae. Although at the , ommenuemeit
of Mr. Mowat's letter there is en ay.ertion
that to he; for Canada first it 14 necessary to
be for British connection. het no attempt
whatever 1. made to establish by argument
or fact a position so untenable. so far at
all events as her material interest' are con-
cerned. and it u speeuily abandoned for the
easier Lok of arousing doubtful sentiments
of loyalty by repeated ringing of the changes
of the phrases handing over our country
to another.- " selling our country for gold, •
etc.,etc. It would beeuite as correct to say
that •• the Americans would be hassling
their country to us, and selling it to us for
gold
T111 Mn$U t\SE\ATF'\ YI�.t Pi LlEn.
The studied mlmppheetiun of tue word
annexation to the process by which the
union of the two countries is sought to be
effected is ale nwponsibk for the inisoon-
ceptioa that exieis es to the true position
Canada would occupy if allied with the rest
of this continent. The term conveys the
idea, as intsndad by those who employ it, of
the use of force an one side and enforced
servitude on the other, both of which pro -
cease,' would be (lithely absent. It would be
as correct to employ it to the method by which
Dune waeaffected bet ween England and Scot -
land. The analogy would become further
apparent when it is ooasiderd that l'ana.la
would be competent to furnish a president
of the new cation. What possible servitude
r r degradation would there be if a poor and
spall trader were to affect a liminess part- c
nersbip with • large and wealth , firm . •1
Lair, nay generous terns'
U.lt.d States, sed that for ens dollar
lisglrh capital invested in Owed. that
Utile
are t■e.. ' e if der o f
Umw.l States. Yet, if w Id
tb.Ifagle.b example aid tar ow
Interest.,, we are decric I as diieyalets
flecoadly he say. thea
. v> 11.4. w te %toe 01 e$ITmt meat.
That blood was partrily that of the fat
of those who now uosatttato the
sails.. Aad it s worthy &leo 01 ret
chat, although woo by such blood, the po
two Dues t.Mmietg the mart valuable port;..
the United `stater, was lost by British pro.
and Kritieh fully. He wets, thirdly, the
the aspirations for lho•da ti sew
front Rritteb commotion should be iodation
deans. In view .f this declaration, whit
berates of the tprplsatatioas se favor of ou
present polttimil ret►INNr. It 1.. 1,0t Von
plimeotary to Britaie to be told that
will use her as a prop, tiny to be di
ea sone as we out stead also. Thus ih
reel roue u a separate iwdepeadeot ex'
.see, or ai existence &. as iadependes
partner in what u destined to be 1
mightiest natio° of the world- perttup&
ing in .11 iia glory and all its prosperity
ds this cuunectiun, tate queetioe pat, by
Eagliet paper in the light of tberecent
erimn and Canadianosews.s inapt, ••How,
Int maks, " ma a settle shell hake
sake headway In the wish of w greet
vesseL - Neither by nature, nor by fortune
.an we ever expect to compete with we
neighbors, for, as
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bat.
Awnca0
tarot
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we
freed
dissented
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en
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Tilt I.tlo.c• 0,l,l ISE\ ITA MI.t' Arreacr- THE
.t. the mighty .currents of emigration and of
progress would continue to be diverted from
our land. The longer the nes is kept up
the greater would hr the distance between
us. Reside.. what is there so alluring in
the word "separate i.. separation not tie
muse of half the misery of Europe, and
of those military burdens which threaten to
swamp the nanous composing that ooati-
n eit ` lin either side of the lines dividing
the different countries, the nations are as
angry beasts restrain► oralj by their leashes
from spriugu'u at one another's throats in ■
dewily struggle for supremacy, that may in-
volve them In one comrnoe ruin. Is this the
picture that the so-called loyalists hold up
for uur Itleetallow A a:lebreted Odom
-
phcr, not okvoid of grim humor, points out
as an evidence of the brute dupositiou that
atilt survives In own his desire even in wird!
had .countries, whey ho has any idle day. tel•
take his gel, and kit etinething, and cell it
sport. The only me these dividing linea,
it appear to one, is to keep alive that brute
disposition in mai to kill his fellowman.
That it would be an immense gain to them.
and to mankind gent -lady, i1 all the nations
of corneal Eunice were to voluntarily unite
in one peaceful eomfe.l.•ra.•y, is a propo.it o
n o oat will disputa.
1-\1'KIL'\1q.I.r.�� 1♦ TIIE i ITE, YTATE>.
He refer.. fourt!.Iy, L the unfriendly
feeling ww&rds Erose Bettaia that exists in
the United States. He overlooks the fact,
however, that that feeling is mainly
amongst those Irishmen. or descendants
o; Iriabmen bore in the heart
of the British Empire, in the shadow of the
throne, and by those who cater for :heir
votes. and weedily by those of native
America° birth who still survive the civil
war, and who have not. Isron able to over•
come the resentment engendered by the
sympathy given by the Tory aristocrats of
England to that party within the Inion
that 011 engaged in the effort to strangle
the New Republic. 'Cilia feeling, however,
is gradually dying away. and if Britain her -
.41 did not contribute to America those
most lentils. elements it would moo cease
to be a ground of complaint that the United
States is unfriendly to her. ('an any one
honestly say that he ever heard expressions
as insulting to Canadian people as was et-
lulgd in by Tory orators, the Tory press,
mail the Tory cartoons, towards the Ameri-
can people during the last general elections.
n stead of a reason for not uniting with our
neighbors it furnishes an additional reason
for so doing, for one cause of hostility
would then be removed.
re
TMETERIL l"YALT" A\I a\\k`.tlIor. 1
aapplied by those who know the potency
of catch words to divert the minds of the
Cenadien people from the consideration of
her true interests. To the independent
1'anadiae such consent protei.Ltioos of
loyalty are humiliating in the extreme. It
is something one never hears in England t
and tie only way to account for its nee
here is that those wbo indulge in 0 are e
suspicious of the genuineness of their owe
feeling. In this Tight the protestation of
the Canadian Parliament on the Muted'
motion wee regarded by all proud tad eel/ -
respecting Caaadiatta It does cwt tend to
increase oar own self-respect, or the respect
of F.nglisbuxn for tis, L intimate that
Canada would submit to be kicked, or
cuffed, ranter than be famed tato • positioe
of independence. Issued of allaying, such
protestations of loyalty tend to arouse
the suspicions of Englishmen. They
wcnld naturally say '•Methintue the lady
doth protest too numb. Such a aestim.et,
I feel satisfied, does sot amieiste the native-
born Canadian.
THE .'.'NsrrrrrIot
He mentions, sixthly, the superior ad-
vwtages of the Canedues constitutional sys-
tem 1.r•n4ag, for the sake of argument,
hat the working of our constitution is more
Imam than theirs, doe. Mr. Mowat think
that the elasticity, which admits of such an
act as that of Lieut -Gov. Anger+ of floe
bee, is a thing to be desired ' There would,
as Mr. Mowat admits, be an enlargement of
Proviso&( rights, • oomummation which,
in view of the arbitrary disallowance of pro
vincisl legid•tion at Ottawa during the last
twelve years, from the Liberal view, is a
thing to be desired. 1 am cure that the
people in the United States will be surprised
to (earn that they do not pow= rsspoesible
government. it is true that their executive
isnot responaible to their Parliament, but
to the Prsideat; but when we coesider
that the President is directly respoewble to
the people the difference is more apparent
than real. But I ern prepared to admit
that in this particular and in the greater
elesticity of our constitutional system we
have slightly the advantage over oar neigh-
bors, but to offset this the advantage is of
their aide in the pomesstoi of $ Resat. that
u L a greater extent • reflex of the popular
will, and of • system by which the stoup to
Quebec weld be mipondbl . If we eve
case to the practical work of at hag
to reform our Senate, wbicb Mr. Molest
speaks of as such an may matter, we woad
Maitre bow difficult the operation is is
any event the seise remark applies to the
America° and every other system of popular
government, a pout which mese be too
strongly impressed upon the ',ebbe mind,
es which there menu to he • misapprehes-
Mios, that
1'1110• Met 0114 %al..nnoa.
would still leave us as free to enjoy our owe
provincial laws as we are .ow, with, in fact,
a yery great enlargement of the subjects o0
which we cook' legislate. As to the pus
seems of • supreme eottrt, which renders
our law more undo, ,, the only applies Lel
ooestittt:osal questions, tad tame subject/II
witbtw tete ocwnvance of the lemmatise' Par
THE rart.Y Unal. P01.1.
t
is that which will bring the greatest udn -
dsal happiness and prosperity L Canadian
hearths and boner, occoespeaied by politi
cal freedoms. This was the doctrine cone
tended for by the late .dohs Bright. the
leader of the English democracy, which
Mr. Mowat is so desirous that we should
homer. He spent • lifetime in the endeavor
to no . that idea oo Kwghsl political
Monght. le me of his great speeches he
says " Great hall. and stately niansio.. do
not make m nation. The nation in every
reentry dwells in the cotteigr, and unless
the light of your oonstitetio■ oar thine
then, unless the beauty of your lege/shoo
and the excellency of your stateeetaiship
are impressed there epos the hearths of the
people, yon have vet L learn the principles
of government. 'There are several mtegor-
ical reasons given by Mr. Mowat for oon-
tinitise the present eosdition of attain,
which for fear, of t ng ton mach on
space which has al been exceeded 1
sae only refer to cursorily The fires, that
THE •RITIOM 4AT1u\ 1' 1,e1 \ IT;.tl.
and the nation of our fathers To which it
cats 1r replied that it is the nation of the limiest. ..d • superior avert exists ie the
12ri of Asgk `t►xon "nerds who travel I'sited !Sates which performs the like
r hoer. and traditions through c of6m. For it k quit. sYpsrent, wh•ve the
Who, pray, were lieorge Warthiegton-s
must be reeteseibered. am oar own cometta.
Wh ithould we alio he teem loyal than
lime abeam of the prawn day/ Arie we an pramment of the judge. hems in the heads
forywitfu: that wa do sot renseenher how, I of tlie people, Mr. Mowat admits that tho
(oily • few years age, we were told by Eag • ie • remelt of their aad not of
limb stetesentem sea &With teat we ass etiastitetans, sod et would sot Ile arose
Mbar. as they radically do is the case a
Quebec, that the deetesons of the tworwis
I 'onto Die the mine subjert matter mese miry
in accordance therewith. As to the ap
seeder Y Mr. Molest hes Oso Mery d the
welled peiltishas' Brats la N..e ins.
etssasa 11 w seer that the system of
imagism was work's/ awn
thee ear ewe, we weld adapt it ; i1 cob we
wa.ld sot.
*TVO•L oner*l•t.M.
Haviag referred very canoedy to the
reamer gives by Mr. Mowat, which w
ounude1 as the meet able .aposito s at pas
reamer gives for the 00niieuei.V5 of uu
pretest status, 1 desire to rel., bnetty w
some of the res.oar fur urstnp; that (:totalis
should at owe endeavor to secure dime al
raatage of the prayer ul the 1f ik Dentis
from which site u w a gram .,tent sew pre
eluded A traerest ghee. et the onnigura
1105 d the mashy reveals the feet Uses tbe
l er-ruling pone, whether the God of tb
aloe wale, • p.uiv. beetgt se
7 the Woodsmen taw Verb.. cess
as &donees that would be inbwsely
sewfaetrdy , frissdly to the mother ..reslr7, as as Wiest
� sod omatars15 b w omit nefrlasdl tae,
coetrib.t.a w a great rateelt by Helka
ba s.it a America ; and I Wes.. that
w.ala ha •
prom of that Rrwtrr un
d the whole Anglo. mases room in ata p1
mal ..hs.sbty seder .els las. with a esteem
elect the political .staacip•uce .f
r ibemoan race. -. hen c..nsultr
THIS 11.41.14.11. .t°l a&TA0►s 10 cal. 110A
!that would resod Instead of beteg at
- I tail and of so Empire too far r• -word
r7 derive any sustesianos frcwt the body, and
whish i.4..I.4 1. they � � I$e
the waNei with trait GILLETT* .
ac's phtq t0 dint M w
Wer pwtwst L the hues that it will
t tee
SI
imam* Its our pease
bag the goal aims tie tea .e y is (ter e
li edeao t0 donde at least Chet either hie obild
105 reel er hM ionwahlanit shall participate ss
the bl- 'ng' tet Si insides, that prospect
hew
por, not of fetuai. dway. we would he
• part of the body itaelf. hlvery nerve et fife
Y am, pubs of ludostry *mild beat, every
artery of trade woukl seen within us, arida
imstead of lagging behind &oil inekint out
sight in the mos we would be in e fore
. from which Ire aro WM es so large aa extent
every force at our disixral, take • great
pert is the world's strife, with ita varying
• sucomes and failures, and in the vuoulduis
of the destmy .4 grtitt peeple. Our net
ural wealth, hidden In our cranes, streams,
watery and forests, amild be revealed and
unlined by Anteriew men and minted.
Our., towns VII61:011 WOUld nee up, 4.0f
populistioa would remain at home, our
e farmer* would have enerketa at their doors
. for the products of their farms sad gardens,
atid our hand, so ioug the picture of deerepi
tea., would Demo to blossom as the rose.
The irruption iuto out country of
would, I believe, resemble t • great retest
that which has taken phsce in Oklahoma
duress the peat two years. 1Vhdet decry
tug whet they erroneously term handing
over our country to Anierna, admirers of
colonel servitude overlook tile fact that we
• have born :setting over what isonstitutes a
country, 100,000 of our 'wet enterprising
citizens each year, after we have hee0 at the
earns., of rearing them, which expense
is pleoed by tyclit ccononiiti at V&A fur
✓ each person. Oise ot the newt siasoeureging
features of the recent mamas ts revealed kin
the feet that those who have goer to the
United States in such nuniters are the
young men who will thenisels. ewe be
owe the fathers of families We Ind fair,
- indeed, ism to become a. notion id old men
and very young children. Not only do they
get these. but they also get onr brightest
inventors, most ruterprising men "1 genius,
in inechamte, ort. And litetatuie. short,
in every walk of life. In what country do
our Miaow; dna their home •
Nor are the pecuniary advantages to be
despised. In no is tlAe posisesston of
money decried, het .tis love. Put to OA
proper use, It is the means a the most un-
qualified blemmung. It is the meat potent
force in tbe worid tedav. What .t it but bet
wealth that give. ''essiland 011 her smell
army the aseendetes. she oeviip.ea among
the nations of Europ• tVessith is emeatial
chanties, art, meaufactures, industries end
progress. "The majority of the evil' to
society are not 'smith but poverty.- What
so tends to cremp the ilevelopn;nt of the
individual as that cankering care and slay
toil that poverty icitails ; and whet on•
tits him more for the performance of the
higher duties of life ! Many haye bees
through stress of poverty who aould, with
the possession of wealth or comfort, be
amoug our most honored clueene. Will any-
one deny that, & man who can supply
himself and his family with the elevating
and reunites infiuencem of educat.on, moan:
painting and the other arta, and who is en'
larging his own and their minds by that iii•
tercourse with their fellow -men that travel
brings, is doing more to accomplish the eitn
of human existence then he would if be
were obliged to engage in a ceaseless rousd
of toil from morning to niyht., in
to keep the wolf from the door, or to sup
ply the necessaries of life to himself and
family. Yet this has been the fats. of the
vast majority of the population of (..)soada
during the last cemetery. If the leisure,
value, ma it he explaused why they are
held tip in eo many systems of religioo as the
highest reward of the after Ide The heav-
en of the Chriatien, no lege then that of the
Mohammedan, is a place of surpassing story.
The walls of it are M jasper aad the city a
pure gold, garniehed with all precious
*teem The gates are of pearl and streeta
at gold, .wit.h • flowing river asd enchanting
meg. Mach of the incentive to the loom
meter. of orthodox Cliristians would be
gone, I fear, it deprived of the hope of on
this inagniseoe acoompuned with
*tarsi rest. If material thine, are thus
up as incentives to the after life, what
varmint MI there for saying that their attais-
Rant in this is cf such ineigafficance
How DIFTICRICHT DMA NDA4.1111011ei!
Who are the people of this coati/not that.
throng all die watering places of America
aod Europe ; the Tupelo that plough the
ocean ; that are the greatest pitrottsal art ;
a no owl how is Mows awdora days hi the
me lie was appear to he happy et • yobbo
the irekkag into ooe separate nation at the
comptimat pane now comprised in the
Domiaiou at Canada. The Freme people
ple the Maritime Pro. ince* sad thous"
teglaser with • yam territory of banes
arating the latter Provisos from tbe
prairies of the West, and an IMID011110 mow
taineus region, which agate *operetta the
latter from Um Pacific Province, all shoot
that the natural dtviding lute between th
tWO eoUlaztes to not that which utter estate
between them. This alone is mittiment
violence the reflecting need that to expend
three fourths of our eni ryes, as we hay
been doing for the last quarter of a century
in the effort to overeome the obstacle* of
nature, only to dessoustrate more eleerly
the impossibility of the teak, instead of ex
natural channels furniiiissai by mature her
self, cannot succeed. Secomily,
has entailed such 'lacunae's secritices 00
our part without 'deferral • single ad
vantage on the mother actuary. Thus every
owsideration of loyalty, both to her and to
ourselves, dictates that • uuioa so unnat
und should end. /loth (..'enads. and the
United States started in the race very near
together. both posseseing, at al! events ia
the snore progressive regions of the hale
country, like natural advantages. lib
serving now the amazing contrast ellabitet
by her, with her 65.000,000 of people. ite
seonspared with our lems thee 5,000,000 ; her
enormous wealth, with our no Itas enormous
debts : her unparalleled pregress in menu
factures, myrmidons, literature and exts,
with our utter stagnation, can this comh•
two be attributed ea anything but our poli
conneeticin with • European country
the two, at every point of eentact from the
Ewa to the Sault, would due:writ the most
marvellous differences lwtween the large
cities on the one side, itud aympartitive ham-
let. on the other. Travelling farther west-
ward, he would see the great American cities
of the Wart, in contrast with the Ione city
of Winnipeg on the north, and on the south
side he would observe a
with a teeming population, whilst ou the
north he would behold a region still largely
devoted to beasts ef the field and birds of
the air. He would then naturally enquire
the reason for the contrast. He wools' not
discover it in the dividing hie. which is
purely imaginary, and ferns ne physical ob-
stacle, neither m the ..limate nor the
but in the political line, which is as insue
mountable es soy object that miture can
rote The attraction whioh a free repelolie
affords to the intended eMigrent ot Europe,
oppressed :is he is by aristocratic and mili-
tary- systems, and which he associmes with
narchy, is a sufficient incentive to emi-
gration. When te this is added' the tend-
ency of large currents to mere in their
course everything coming within the range
of their Influence, combined with the great-
er adventages which • country of wealth
end immensely developed resources afford,
we realize the difficulty, nay, the impossibil-
ity, of diverting the stream of eamerstion
towards us, and- the result will be that in no
way can this country be filled in the distent
future exoept by the overflow from the
United States, which would at the same
time bring us an element friendly to the
Usion which would ultimately vote us into
Experienee has demonstrated that the
Antenean will not spend pernmeently his
mosey out. of hie own Le:pantry to enrich an-
other. Theo is case of the reasons why un-
restricted reciprocity, while, no doubt, eon -
terrine great beaefits, would not secure by
any means sa great. &dramas*. as
It is of no avail to Jay that (*made pos-
sesses ea free Goveraineat as that of the
United States This is correct, but the in-
tended emigrant does not know this, aor
does he sit down to study ociastittitathal his-
tory before starting. He judges merely from
what is On the sarfues. The vision of the
great Americas republic, %here every man
equal ited has a chance of occupy's( the
bighoet position in the State, save thou, of
the Presidency, one moot •Iliiring to kiss.
• ventage to Peeked. Casa rayons fail
to disoens that we are the weak, the fatal-
ly weak mot is Britain's armor ! To •
knowledge of this is to be attributed the ex
tent to whie.h the United Staten has bee.
permitted to bully &glued, from the tine
al tbe Ashburton treaty, which Lord Palm-
erston himself tensed the Ashburtea Sur -
reader, to the latest difficulty in the Hebring
Sea, aa 111111011110i of imlignity to winch Keg
land would submit from no other sidles.
Surely note ere mo deem as not to perceive
that it would be Lbeolotely itnpoemble for
Kaglasod to engage in • suoceisial war with
tbe United States, so far removed as eh* is
from her base of eappbee, sad surrounded,
strip her of him Asiatic dosaniona, and to
Karopran, cr, as oss of ler own statesmen
demented her, as Asiatie,pserer sod her
intoresta are them, aad ft moods no other
posed, I trent, than these with whelk we
have bees furaishod dunng the last Isalf
century to satiety °madman that
enot.avi. tii. Noe co To WAR a 1111 Tor
o preserve *median annum., or hire ter -
tonal integrity. Mr. Mowat says, ia
siert, thin tbe spirit manifested by
the United Suites towards Britain sismild
althea *vary Inding of liAlitarlf1111111 in •
spirited Canadiaa. This may be true ; bat
great 'neat by ths repeated monlices that
t:itgland is always ready to make of Caw
ilea intonate for the sake of the poem a
the Ramiro. Oar peruistoat chagiag to We
wow sop, settee every dictate solf-in-
sorest, fold the of the parrot, prima
who renens se sweetener., to aa
&heady overburdened parent rashes Ikea
inartent ea ma adspandase mem of his es*
Woo orith the Valhi Staten wadi
had liettrer go ' Is eaves so to the eery for os so follow their example us this. ad
Kortipeon mweitioa that he eau deals Ire it an a tribute, however, to this latithe. I
hat Kogland in her sweet heart trookf re 1 tory working of that system tam SO "bill/ '
pm to b. freed from tie ensberrsientent of 1 States ars voinetardy selopsims it, It is 1
the Casadmaconnostia' Half the tombless( , sin • fact that the elective spawn dom ast I to
Rritask diplomacy imed half the Wooers that , Hybl te pidgin of the higher marts them
news& Is it ase also aa indisputable hew ple el Cateada, be mars annstilhotory iris
ranee, the British nation week! be re- I Would dos rio• of joilsw, If WA te the pow I a
ilea
Li hews Waliwg ea the prisotplo savindatif own jailleseltilla, sad owes, is sows Wows •
thus kr we Ilhelohoom who mhos (hood), mow M ob• apookiwposto to our seaway I
thet espy else moot of the comforts and
luxuries of life ; that hold the mighty
&Vining ot toed. and isdastry with= used.
grasp, but our American coneine We have
greet natural wealth, it to true, but it is of
no practical benefit without the Miser of
developing it. This is why • bargain so ad-
matureous to both puttee ems be effected
11 would pay thee to allow us for our in
tenet in the partnership mach mon thin it
is worth te us, and et the same Una so
atone than it as worth to them We are in
the position of an individual poniamilw •
great estate, with no means of developing it.
The meet rational thing for hint to do
would be to take is • partner who meld
contribute the money aad meanie as Isis
share of the °mita/ When you otessesier
what a. power for good meth • mighty unioa
of forces would be, dors it not appear to
you that its wooseplishasset e • cause
idireor=s of your leadership! I believe it
met. Your cionstrymen have
on you for sta speedy mom" • -
to yon. Whether you lead or oot ia tho
mooniest, it is bound to moose& Tim
difference. betwoma the present movement
and taw abortive efforts before Poo& al that
his is
hmentiag arouse/I from their lone sleep,
r. lifewat may he right in the fear. whine,
Kalmar. to toe, Ine letter ample* that he
termite that dare •4••• will permeate tie
ks cif Ms Liberate sooner iota those a
o res Liberalism would met antriant to
meth if they did not. It would indeed be
stratum if thoy, wham holm owl owe blood
ye eauwaratod
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MIKs DONAGH has just
returned front Detroit and
other cities with tile latest and
best ideas in Spring Millinery.,
ani will be pleased to give the
benefit of her experience to the
ladies of lloderich and vicinity
who di...sire to avail themselves of
her services.
I aaggow House. March '23. I 59?.
GOODE'S CONDITION POWDER
In medicines quality is of first iit-
portance.
We use only the purest and best
I drugs in our prescription work.
Personal attention.
W. T. HAYS & Co.
Titie week we are opining out a new stook at
TRAW 'HAT'S !
In the latest shapes and in every style. We have a large stock
of Boys' and Girls' Sailor Hats.
A complete new stock of white shirts anti a full assortment of nee
wear and fancy flannels in stock.
A special history for the coming mama will be a fine
NEW STOCK OF SPORTING OUTFITS
which ham yust been received and nomprises
Baseball, Lacrosse, Lawn Tennis,
Cricket, Camping and Bathing Outfits.
He sure to call and dee our stock soil prions and he con. inted that do
have the right article for yoo.
Agents tor the Parisian steam laundry
W. T. HAYS & Co.
NSW oar. Mentithilit. end Sew&
CARPETS & LACE CURTAINS.
During the next few weeks we expect a lively carpet and curtain
business, and sre are fully prepared for it We direct special attendee to
OUR IWO 410 THIII-PLI ILL -TOOL OMITS.
TheAe gsoorlm are bcmght direct from the mill Med are the
boat goods made in Canada.
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