Should England Go To War
With France, Canada Must Close Her Ports Against French Vessels.
If England Chooses To Send Her Troops To Canadian Barracks, Canada
Cannot Refuse To Accept Them.
If England should send to Canada an
unpopular governor, Canada has no power to reject his services.
As
long as Canada is a colony so called, she cannot be independent,
and should not be expected to walk alone. It is exactly the same
with the colonies of Australia, with New Zealand, with the Cape of
Good Hope, and with Jamaica. While England enjoys the prestige of
her colonies, while she boasts that such large and now populous
territories are her dependencies, she must and should be content to
pay some portion of the bill. Surely it is absurd on our part to
quarrel with Caffre warfare, with New Zealand fighting, and the
rest of it. Such complaints remind one of an ancient pater
familias who insists on having his children and his grandchildren
under the old paternal roof, and then grumbles because the
butcher's bill is high. Those who will keep large households and
bountiful tables should not be afraid of facing the butcher's bill
or unhappy at the tonnage of the coal. It is a grand thing, that
power of keeping a large table; but it ceases to be grand when the
items heaped upon it cause inward groans and outward moodiness.
Why should the colonies remain true to us as children are true to
their parents, if we grudge them the assistance which is due to a
child?
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