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Show NATIONAL ANTIPATHIES THE QUEBEC RIOT. The antipathy that exists between people of different races and nationalities nationali-ties throughout the world, often finds pxpressioo in riot and bloodshed. The mutual hatred of each other between the distinctly different races of mankind man-kind as defined by ethnologists, is innate, in-nate, a condition of birth, that not even education can eradicate; but the antipathies that sever into hostile divisions divi-sions the different branches of the same raw, generally result from education in the shape of religious training. The civilized world is continually being startled by accounts of riots and massacres mas-sacres solely incited oy the innate or trained jealousios of race against race and nation against nation. Leaving out of considration race antipathies an-tipathies which only force can restrain i'rom violent expression, we find a bitterly bit-terly hostile feeling existing between branchos of the sauio race, and this hostility is as general and rampant with tho nationalities that are in (he van of civilization as it ia among sav-1 age and half civilized tribes and peo- I pies. Educated Frenchmen and Germans Ger-mans dislike each other; the paramount feeling between an Irishman and an Englishman is that of iutenso hatred; there is no friendship between be-tween the Scotch and tho Irish ; tho Italians abominate tho Austrians, the Poles tho Russians, and tho enmity enmi-ty between the English and French has often deluged Europo in blood. At tho election in Quebeo on Monday for members of tho Dominion parliament, this antipathy between nationalities paused a fearful riot botrrcun the Eng lish and French doctors, by which several sev-eral lives were lost and many persons wounded. Couchon was the candidate of the French party and Ross of the English. In this election questions of pubiio policy were entirely subordinated to tho national antagonism between England and Franco, proving that although al-though both parties were members of a common government, they had brought with them from the two countries whenco they respectively came, and fostered and transmitted to their descendants, de-scendants, the old jealousies and prejudices preju-dices that have cost the two nations so much of blood and. treasure. This thing of nationality exercises a powerful effect in our own elections. Unscrupulous politicians appeal to the national prejudices of the different classes of our citizens of foreign birth, and it is too often tho case that the citizens of one nationality waive their private opinions on questions of public policy, and vote their prejudices pell mell. Serious results have sometimes threatened to ensue from thus allowing class antipathies to override judgment, but fortunately we have escaped them through the influence of tho large number num-ber of conservative citizens who feel no interest in tho mutual prejudices between be-tween the different peoples that have settled the country. Amalgamation, the intermarriage between oitizens of foreign birth, and of different national-ties, national-ties, has been tho agency that has kept in subjection the spirit that incites the feuds which keep the nations of Europe chronically quarrelling or fighting. |