Show CUBA AND CANADA I Secretary BLAIXE has been joining in the talk about the annexation of Canada and Cuba but to his credit be it said he talks like a coolheaded statesman aud not like so many of the blatherskite politicians and thoughtless editors who arc urging the immediate im-mediate incorporation of the island and the province named in the American republic Mr BLAINE doesnt say so in words but he lets it be known that in the case of each of these it will take two parties to make the bargain and that it will require some very important legislation before the scheme can I be consummated He deprecates the agitation agita-tion of the matter as the more wild and reckless talk there is about it the more difficult dif-ficult it will be to accomplish the object sought He thinks the time to pluck the fruit is when it is ripe The men who are doing so much talking about the annexation of Cuba and Canada are not statesmen to say the least and they do not understand the theory the ambition or the practice of the United States It is hardly to be expected that they would understand these things as to other governments Cuba is owned by Spain as much as is Madrid or as any of the provinces and is as completely under Spanish control Spain does not want to sell the island and will not give it away and now how are the United States going about it to annex To use force would involve in-volve more trouble and expense than a dozen Cubas would be worth The conflict con-flict would not be with Spain alone but with other powers which would naturally oppose the forcible acquisition by the United States of so important an island And then there would be the Cubans themselves to conquer the great majority of them being as loyal to the crown as any living people are to their rulers A few adventurers desire annexation annexa-tion and a few others love liberty more than they do loyalty but the Cuban masses prefer Spanish to American rule Before we annex the island we should be certain cer-tain that a majority of the people desired to come undert no stars and stripes The case of Canada is somewhat similar such difference as exists being oppose l to annexation A few Canadians would like to see the stars and stripes floating over the dominion but they are only a few comparatively com-paratively speaking The majority arc still as loyal to the Queen as are the dwellers j dwell-ers in London But the faction which is growing fastest and which promises in time to carry the day is that which is disposed I dis-posed to withdraw from the mother country coun-try and form an independent epublie with the United States for an ally instead of a master We do not doubt that in time portions por-tions if not all of the British possessions in North America will be incorporated in the United States but before that time there will be one or more republics formca from Canadian territory It is certain let the thoughtless annexationists talk as they may that there will be neither annexation nor conquest until a great political revolution revolu-tion has been wrought among the Canadian people and we doubt that that revolution will be wrought before the Canadians have tried an independent government and wisely concluded that it will be better for r them to become a part of the American 1 union In other word there will be no annexation an-nexation until the Canadian people are as j eager to enter the union as Americans can > p be to accept them |