Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1888 — Annexation of Canada. [ARTICLE]

Annexation of Canada.

Indianapolis News. As a diversion in the speculation about what the President-elect will do, Eastern newspapers are just now having much to say about the probability that General Harrison will endeavor, during his administration, to take Canada under the control of the United States. New York journals are giving the matter a surprising amount of serious attention. A telegram from VVashington quotes an intimate friend of General Harrison as having said that, like a’l Presidents, he feels that he must do something that will give his administration a prominent place in history, and therefore one of the first official acts will be to open negotiations fOr the annexation of Canada. The telegram says that the Presi-dent-elect believes that Canada can b.e annexed to the United States by assuming the debt of that country. If the territory can not be secured for that consideration he frould favor paying a considerable bonus. “It is understood/’ the dispatch continues, “that he has said privately that the surplus in the Treasury could not be spent in a better manner than buying Canada. He heartily approves such a move and will so recommend in his first message to Congress.” All this is very surprising information, and evidently it is in the nature of news to the President elect, for when he was asked last night what he thought about the proposition to annex Canada to the United States he re-’ plied: “I don’t know anything about it.”