Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1891 — ANNEXATION. [ARTICLE]

ANNEXATION.

The Feeling for It. Rapidly Growing in Canada - -Recent (.'lterances. A strong feeling in favor of independence is growing in Quebec, and it can safely be said that at least two-thirdsotth« people are favorable to it, There was a time when such sentiments as are being openly expressed at present would have been met with the cry of “traitor,” 'That time is past. Not only the French press advocates it. but a respectable portion of the English press have lately come otrt.in support of it. The peopleare getting dis satisfied with the existing state of affairs, which Is by no means encouraging. Agaifl in Ontario, annexation meetings are being held in different parts weekly, and Colonel White,-Conservative member of Par--liainetrt,:isaboirt si starttng an annexatTdn organ, l.e National, a Quebec government organ, come out with astrong article in favor of independence. It says the efforts of Sir Charles Tupper to sell the French-Cana Bans to tho English people, with the only object of forcing trade te the Canadian Pacific railroad, and tho adjournment of the reciprocity conference, are sure indications that Canada is- no more a country, but, a field of operation for all the monopolists and organizers of English plunderings. The article gets in a slap at the Govcrnor.General, and goes on to say that the only reason for forcing ns to exchange our products with Australia js to justify the Canadian Pacific in opening new lines of steamships- and obtaining contracts at exhorbitant prices for the carriage of mails and British troops.