Ka Nupepa Elele, Volume XII, Number 29, 28 February 1891 — CANADA'S TWO PARTIES. [ARTICLE]

CANADA'S TWO PARTIES.

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New York, February 7tla.—-Profes-sor Goldwin Smith of Toronto, in a 5®tter to the 'Tyines, expta,itis politicafsiiittati©ii in Canada. He says.' 4 'TJk# immediate. issue i< tbai of trade United States, but beneath tbis iiea tbe broader fesue' b6tween the Continefrtal aiul anti-Continental Iiibe¥ah of Oanada, whe-|fier'tli*ey 46ok for the inti«Qate eatranee of Canadn into tlie Anierican Union »r not, ar« now man of tHis Contineiit, and regard the inhabitants of the rest of it as partners, and de- ( sir« to cultivate" the closast relations | with them. Th| Gongervatives are anti-Continental. They . desire to keep Canada in all things divided fr«m hercontinental tend«n«ies and attached to Great Britain, where tlio EOeial c6nter of their partv lies. Pr*eticftlly t -thf>y to make Canada the engine of the conservative aristoracy of Great Britain for averting th* tthimphy * of the Jlemocraoy of the ne#"world and a* part of the American Continent unde-r aristoeratic institutions or the influence of a continehUl patty. Sir <Tohn Maedonald is the ehiel His whole polie}hra been directed against c!os«r rekiiona with the United 1Sfafes. The Cana<}iari Paeific Railway waa his destined instifnmont, though the course of «voctts by wbieh his "Kationil" railway has been converted i»to hfclf an Americ*n r*ad «eems to proYe hopeless the fight against iiatpre, For the commercial question by ijt»jelf h« may be said k>j?ar«.eouipftrntively !itiie.

A*l<»ng the peopl<>. Tfhatever mu v y be tLeir politieal l)©jtriug to\vai\l Llie United St»tes. tho d*win» for fvee. trado M ith th«ir o\pu eonUuenl *$*<*. If 4he people are lftt iilimcj ther* ean be no doubt tho wnliel will be m favor of reeiprocily aud agaiu»t a Proto42tioniat Gov«rum«ut. But Uie |X*ople will nol bt» lot alono. Th« countr>- haa boen gov«rn<Kl !or tweu-ty-fiv# yoar* l»rg*ly by Cvvrruption, oarti»Hl ou by of f«der*l uub ssi«li*s to }wtuic«6. wliioh oui Cou>ti tutiou unfvHtuu»k'l\ |H i iuiitjs, (tK\t*ral g*4ai» k» loonl |>üblio *orks., eouee* sio«« to wntractoi-s and bribon of* all kind«. Thoso •ngmds will ;ul bepliovl ou tho p«oplo, j>oUtie&l = Un»o ha« be*m &avlly lo*oixxl b\ iens; subjectiott to tlu»ir inōuoneo, Tho 1 tiov©rnmout'sin*jority ittthektol\\r j hsnnontoverfifty on « •* Hou®t of 215 mouiim, so that ihi» ī «

Liborals hfive considerabl6 ]o«vay to make up. Oh the other hand, many GoYernn)ent*seats were won at the last election by amall majorities, which' : if the people were' to vote freelv according their convictions on the commercial qiiestion. would, 110 doubt, be reversed."