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To the Editor of the Canadian- American, Sir: — Canada lioars with interest, and it may be pafely added with pleasure, f that it is the determination of Canadians and "ngh'shmen set- •tled in the United States, wlio have hitherto decUned naturah*- .. zation or stood aloof from politics, to naturalize, to become .{ictive citizens of their adopted country, and thus to obtain a : fair position in the Eepublic for the mea of their race and due influence for the Canadian and British vote. It is not to be desired that Canadians and Englishmen should prefer politics to honest industry, and fill the common- ' wealth with a swarm of grog-shop politicians, turniiig public life, ' the iiighest of all callings, into the lowestof all trades. Canada and Great Britain have reason to be proud that their sons, instead of becoming wirejlullers, bosses, repeaters, and ballot-stuffers, prefer to make their livelihood by honorable means, and are dis- tinguished as citizens only by their loyalty to the common weal and their reverence for the law. But political self-efl'acement is a mistake. Abstention from political activity has brought on A Canatlians and iMiglish in the United States not only impotence but disrespect and actual contumely. The origin, the language, the institutions of the Republic are British, and British is almost every name of high distinction in her annals. Yet it is hardly possible to take up an American journal or to listen to an American debate without reading or hearing something in- sulting to tlie British race and name. I liave lienrd a mem'^er of Congress, one of the better and more high-minded class, de- plore the foul and caluminous inveciives against the MotJicr Coiuitry to which he is compelled to listen. These are tributes paid by the cowardice anU hypocrisy of journalists and the poli- ticians to the sinister activity of the Irish in politics, the clan- nishness with w)iich they hold together, and the concentrated force with which their vote is wielded by their bosses and their priests. The tribute will cease to be paid Avhen tiiere is not only an Irish but a Canadian and a British vote. By reason- able self-assertion in the political sphere you redeem not only yourselves from degradation, but the Republic from self-abase- ment. Worse than political contumely may possibly be the conse- quences of abstention. Canadians and Englishmen may some day find themselves involved, and perhaps called upon as citi- zens to serve, in an unrighteous war against the Mother Country, brought on by the sycophancy of journalists and poli- ticians who, to gratify Irish malignity, traduce and bully Great Britain. The Kepublic would not go into such a war with her eyes open ; but it is not with their eyes open that nations are led into unnecessary and unjust wars. At all evonts, so long as the Uritish element is politically doAvn- trodden, Anglo-Saxon inunigration, whether from Great Britain or Canada, will be repelled ; aJid this will be disastrous to the United States. It is in the Anglo-Saxon race mainly that the lialnts and traditions of self-goverinncnt reside; it is from the men of that race that the other races settled in the llmtcd States have received their education in republican citizenship ; and the great danger of the Republic at present, confessedly, is the ex- cessive dilution of this element by the increasing inflow of for- eign elements drawn from countries where the people have undergone no political training and are not a law lo themselves. One of the bad consequences of the Anglo-Saxon r.chism in the last century, as it has always seemed to me, was the diversion to Australia of the Anglo-Saxon emigration which is needed to re-inforce the self-governing and truly republican clement here. At this junclure, when foreign Anarchism polls so many votes under its own flag, the political self-effacement of Anglo-Saxon inmiigrants will be doubly injurious to the Republic. •I If, as I see stated, there is something in the formulary of naturalization specially distasteful to Englishmen and Canadians as bearing traces of the old revolutionary quarrel, this surely cannot be more than a technicality, such as ought not to be allowed to interfere with the acceptance of a great practical advantage. It is jurisdiction that is renounced and not affection. The removal of anytlr' ng that may be offensive in the formu- lary would probal'V' he the first fruit of the nicrea^ed influence of the British and Canadian vote. If tliat affection for Enj^laii(\ which I most heartily share, ' is felt by any American citizen of British race as a liar to a change of allegiance, let him remember that the worst of all tributes which can be offered to the Mother Country is the political impotence of her friends. Into anything like conspiracy, cabal, or anti-national or- ganization, it is to be hoped that British and Canadian Ameri- cans will never allow themselves to be drawn. If they overact in unison as a race, let it be only in self-defence and for the purpose of repelling contumely and wrong, as their kinsmen are beginning to find it necessary to do on this side of the line. Their para- mount duty, as they wrll know, is that of American citizens bound to exercise their political power for the good of the Republic as a whole, and without regard to distinctions of race or creed. But as American citizens they have a right to equality ; they have ; a right to immunity from political insult ; they have a right to security against being misgoverned, and still more against being dragged into unrighteous quarrels with their Mother Country in the alien interest of an Irish feud ; and in' asserting those "lights they will only be doing what tru6 loyalty and patriotism > dictate toward their adopted country. Yours faithfully, COI/DWIN SMITH. ! Toronto, Sept. 17th, 1887. ily sliaro, bar to ;i rst of all y is the iorial or- i Ameri- eract in purpose !ginning jir para- 13 bound blic as a a. But ley have right to 3t being !^ountry g those riotism !TH.