The American Government adheres to its policy of com- pelling
Canada to enter into a commercial union with the United States by impeding her prosperity. The owners of the Buffalo Grain Elevator applied on Thursday to the Secretary of the Treasury to withdraw from the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada its privilege of conveying grain in bond through the United States, a privilege enjoyed for twenty-five years. The application was supported by Secretary Blaine, on the avowed ground that Canadian injustice to American fisher- men could only be " healed" by " absolute and impartial reci- procity ;" and Mr. Secretary Windom promised to " restrict " not to cancel—the privilege. The blow to the railway is severe, but will hardly coerce Canada, where the worrying attitude of Washington creates great animosity. There is, however, a strong reciprocity party in the Dominion; while there is, as we have recently pointed out, a change in the general tone of American politicians towards Canada. They are growing covetous of her new wealth, and are, moreover, greatly in- clined to counterbalance Negro influence in the South by extensions to the North, where the Negro cannot live.
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