Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

W. 11. Lever, the great English soap manufacturer, has come to America to establish soap factories in the United States and Canada; One-third of the $10,000,060 loan put on the London market by the Dominion Government will be taken up by a syndicate of Canadian bankers. Hereafter every pound of goods not bought in Canada will have to pay duty before being allowed in the Klondike country. The Canadian Government has decided to revoke the regula lions'allowing prospectors to take in 100 pounds of goods free of duty. Never since 1892 has the potato crop of the United States proved so nearly a failure, says the American Agriculturist, as the final reports of the yield of 1897. Compared with the liberal crop of last year, there is an apparent falling off of nearly 30 per cent in tonnage. The executive of the Independence League of Canada, at Montreal, which comprises many conspicuous French Canadians, has issued an address to the people of Canada urging immediate action toward securing the complete independence of the dominion from Great Britain. “Who is the man who would not be free?” says the address. “Relying on the justice of our cause weclaim the privilege of using our inalienable right to free ourselves from British tutelage. A tutelage presupposes an incapable or an interdict. Are the Canadian people so miserable that they will submit to such a disgrace? Will 5,000,000 of brave and honest mem occupying a greater country than the whole of Europe, continue to bow their heads beneath the British yoke? Certainly not, and as they have a right to do. they will proclaim t-heir independence. Legally England cannot prevent them. The time to act is now. Not only our dignity refuses to longer accept the English tutelage, but the future of our country depends upon the energy which we show toward realizing as soon as possible the great project of free Canada. To those who are not blinded by English fanaticism, personal interest or ignorance, it is evident that Canada is marching with rapid steps loward bankruptcy.” Thousands of copies of the address have been printed in French and will be scattered broadcast throughout the province of Quebec.