Globular Loyalty

Année
1886
Mois
5
Jour
18
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Globular Loyalty
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Page(s)
2
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GLOBULAR LOYALTY. Yesterday afternoon, on the eve of Loyalists Day, the St. John Globe put forth the following in regard to the fishery question:— If we invite the American people to enter into a treaty with us and they decline, are we to pursue towards them a policy calculated, if not intended, to annoy and irritate them? Yet this is what we appear to be doing. Such a course is entirely unworthy of a high minded people, and it will have a bad effect on a high-spirited people. The Americans are not a nation to be badgered into any course of action by any other nation, much less by a colonial dependency of a European power. Nations constantly decline without loss of dignity to make special treaties. We have yet to find that because the one declines the other is justified in commencing a series of petty annoyances against it. But it seems that the Canadian government, urged on by a jingo press, is disposed to worry the United States because the latter declines to make a new fishery treaty with Great Britain on behalf of Canada. Now the editor apparently had in his mind the respective merits and attitudes of the Dominion of Canada and the United States, What are the words which he applies to the United States, and its people? They are "a high-spirited people," "not a nation to be badgered," etc. And what is the editor’s opinion of the Canadian people and government? That they are endeavoring “to annoy and irritate” the people of the States, to “badger” them, to “worry” the United States! And then, Canada is only “a colonial dependency of a European power;” is pursuing “a course entirely unworthy of a high minded people,” and “commencing a series of petty annoyances” against our neighbors. What a noble republic and what a contemptible dominion the Globe editor had in his mind when he penned those words! Further on in the same article he speaks of our “blind folly,” and adds: “A barbarous nation might be justified by the ignorance in pursuing such a course.” Shades of the men of '83! What a celebration for your centennial. To what a depth of on worthiness your descendants have fallen! “unworthy,” “annoying,” “irritating,” “badgering,” “worrying,” "blind," “barbarous,” “colonial dependents of a European power.” Really, so many compliments call for a serenade. Barely the descendants of the Loyalists on this their own day will not forget to signify in some manner their appreciation of the Globe’s too gushing loyalty!