Show u CANADA The Trench Language iu the NorthWest West Stir Lu r Cm Nov33 1591 j Correspondence of the DJSIUCT Corrpndenc II NsavaThme Canadian press has reported that at the opening of the legislative cession of thin Canadian Northwest M Royal the lieutenant I I lieu-tenant governor pronounced in Fnglisb alone the speech from the throne which was formerly promul gated in the two languages In signalizing this fact some French CanaJian journals seem toacqulesco in the influence henceforth preponderating prepon-derating of the Kngllsh in tlie Northwest Nosy hen is what lie Justice of Quebec energetically protests against the retrograde attitude tude of his confreres This journal consecrates four columns to the question of the French language which it considers Is iu effect of thin greatest importance to Canada The JuUc says among other things I Tho urN lies JatUnta is bet far b-et largest French journal of America and the ono that has the largest circulation upon this continent npn nent among those who speak the lanfmago of our common mother country coun-try Lu Fiance cunl I I And It appears that this journal Is I under the I Impression that the aboil1 I ol Lion of the Fiench language eI the I Xorthwcst has been a necessity and I that we the JVrutenil tin Cannda ae copt this state of things with heartfelt I gladness I I It is true that there has been encountered I I en-countered a man raised by a French and Catholic mother In Lea of whom the French blood should How abundant and generous and that this man forgetful of bis duties traitor tote to-te rights of his nice h himself ret the example In the legislature the North west of the prescription of the French language and the Catholic school It is I equally true that there are found journals which approved this I monstrous and Dnqoallfiaule act But it i necessary to say ono I thing and t ray It emphatically Lieutenant GovernorRoyal the te French governor of the 2Torthw bn not succeeded and never will b successful Swing able t proscribe pro-scribe the French language 1 ZaTuotocafterwardsdcmonstraUs with ample legal proofs t Its sup I port that the fundamental sup Canada guarantees uWoen French I inhabitants of ilanitoba and the i Northwest tie usage of the French i tongue n the oflicial language j These laws should be maintained by j lie Canadian government con1 1 eludes JM Jiviice in spite of the I decadence w hlch condemns the great I majority rf hue French Canadians Translated fmm n French journal by jBUIWH IlAJIllN |