Show TIlE ONLY WAY The acquisition of the British possessions posses-sions of North America by the United States is a subject much thought of and talked about just now Such an acquisition acquisi-tion has many glorious and beneficial I possibilities It would extend our northern boundaries bound-aries to the North Pole The descendants of the English Scotch Irish and French who inhabit the region north of us would I make very desirable citizens Embezzlers j and boodle aldermen would lose their t place of refuge and there would be not I no-t need of reciprocity treaties while tho S fishery disputes would at once be settled Then it would solve railroad and other problems for one of the embarrassments of the new InterState railroad law is the independence of the Canadian lines and their ability to cut rates between our western and eastern centers of population popula-tion But desirable as these annexations J would be we have no intention of going to war to bring them about 1 If the United States ever acquires the British possessions on this continent it I I must be by peaceable means It must be by the voica of Britains American subjects It must be the result of expediency S expe-diency and mutual benefit and not of conquest This is the only way |