Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1889 — COMMERCIAL UNION. [ARTICLE]

COMMERCIAL UNION.

Ths Canadian Question Likely to be Considered by the Next Congress. A special from Washington says: The recent seizure of Canadian sealers in the Behring sea and the chances for further difficulties on the Atlantic coast upon the expiration of the modus vivendi, will give the subject of our relations with Canada even more interest in the next House than it had in the last. There will be a number of men in the next Congress who are advocates of a close commercial relationship between the United States and Canada. It is their opinion that the two peoples, speaking as they do one language, and springing from the same general stock, are fitted by nature as well as by location for commercial as well as political unity. Anfl while it is their opinion, also, that the time will come in the future when British North America will be absorbed into the United States, and when the flag with a hundred stars will float over the entire territory north, of the Rio Grande, these mem are not ready to believe that this grand scheme for the extension of the United States territory can be carried out for many years to But the idea of commercial union has rapid strides forward since it was first advooated years ago, and it is the opinion of the leading statesmen in both parties that the time is rapidly approaching when Canada and the United States will have some definite understanding, and the next Congress is expected to give the matte* consideration.