"To be taken into the American Union is to be adopted into apartnership. To belong as a Crown Colony to the British Empire, asthings stand, is no partnership at all.
"It is to belong to a power which sacrifices, as it has alwayssacrificed, the interest of its dependencies to its own. The bloodruns freely through every vein and artery of the American bodycorporate. Every single citizen feels his share in the life of hisnation. Great Britain leaves her Colonies to take care ofthemselves, refuses what they ask, and forces on them what theyhad rather be without.
"If I were a West Indian, I should feel that under the stars andstripes I should be safer than I was at present from politicalexperimenting. I should have a market in which to sell my producewhere I should be treated as a friend. I should have a powerbehind me and protecting me, and I should have a future to which Icould look forward with confidence. America would restore me tohope and life: Great Britain allows me to sink, contenting herselfwith advising me to be patient. Why should I continue loyal whenmy loyalty was so contemptuously valued?"—James AnthonyFroude (from "The English in the West Indies," Nov. 15,1887).
"In the United States is Canada's natural market for buying aswell as for selling, the market which her productions are alwaysstruggling to enter through every opening in the tariff wall, forexclusion from which no distant market either in England orelsewhere can compensate her, the want of which brings on hercommercial atrophy, and drives the flower of her youth bythousands and tens of thousands over the line.
"The Canadian North-west remains unpeopled while the neighboringStates of the Union are peopled, because it is cut off from thecontinent to which it belongs by a fiscal and politicalline."—Goldwin Smith, D.C.L., in "Questions of the Day,"page 159. (Macmillan & Co., London, 1893).
It would be evidence of gross ignorance, or something worse, topretend that the United States, under like conditions, would havetreated the Newfoundlanders better than England has done. It would beespecially so after the humiliating spectacle presented to the worldby our Democratic majorities last year in Congress and in the Stateand city of New York.
With material resources superior to those of any other country in theworld, we are obliged to appeal to the European money-lender for gold.
Even the chosen head of our Tory Democracy tells Congress that we mustsacrifice $16,000,000 to obtain gold on the terms offered by hisSecretary of the Treasury.
England's past blunders have been singularly favorable to Americaninterests, when real statesmen were at the helm in Washington. Anystrategist can see that, if Lord Palmerston, instead of bull