| Show THE EVILS OF PARTY POLITICS li american view even in the diplomatic field where if anywhere patriotism ought to prevail over party the executive in its struggling against a foreign power for the rights ot of the country ft a embarrassed in its action by pa part baj opposition and traduced traducer trad before ift if adversaries and the world sk large by party animosity at a cribb which seems to threaten war declare that the country is ia def ensele and aad if you ask how it comes to pal i that the united states is without a navy that their coasts lie exposed to assault and their wealthy cities to devastation while a sum larger than the entire military expenditure of first rate war powers to is spent jr in army pen pensions siona the answer is that ships of war cannot turn the party scale by their amid tite the distractions and actions of party anything like ift a steady ands and farsighted far sighted policy in external affairs becomes alcoa impossible the treatment of the canadian question stion for instance is a bastory of vacillation and irresolution of af policies adopted in the national Sa late terest rest and voted by some local or personal interest which party courts of 01 vows feare there la reason to apprehend r that the question quee tion may remain un alved alved ol ved and that a power antagonistic to the american republic may thus thua be to form itself under the st auspices mu spices of european in we north of this continent though by that jesuit a stain would be brought en american statesmanship deeper even r ilhan that which was w as brought on it by its 1 failure to solve the question of slavery ince the question of slavery was bot biot certainly capable of satisfactory factory alon whereas the canadian question r certainly is |
