INTERN ATIOXAL TliEATIE.S. 1S5' 



ties, it is not woikKtIu] lluit llie colonists sliould liii\(/ at times 

 discovered impatience, and always clieiislied an irritaljU' discon- 

 tent with tlieir hard lot. 



THE WESTMINSTKK REVIEW ON THE SITUATION. 



Snbjoined are a few extracts from an able article in tlie TP'est- 

 minster Review for April, 1892. The wiiter, Mr. E. R. Spearman, 

 is thoroughly in syniimtliy with Newfoundlanders in their hard 

 struggles : — ^" It behoves Englishmen to make themselves masters 

 of the whole story of tlie Newfoundland difficulty, and to be 

 thus prejjared to deal with it intelligently whenever the crisis 

 comes. To begin with, it must be understood by Englishmen 

 that the great bulk of Frenchmen do not care two straws about 

 Newloundland itself, but do care a great deal about other sore 

 subjects of controversy with England's empire elsewhere, and so 

 seize on any available grievance like Newfoundland to manifest 

 international ill-will whenever tlie Gallic cock desires to give the 

 English lion a prod with 1 lis angry spurs." * * * "Though 

 enough physical mists sTUTound Newfoundland, there is still no 

 real reason why any political mists should envelope it, so far as 

 Englishmen are concerned. Every verse in the great epic of 

 Newfoundland should be fresh in every Englishman's brain, for 

 it is that ejjic which marks his race's march to world-wide em- 

 pire and glories unequalled in the record of mankind." 



ENGIiAND'S NEGLECT AND CRUELTY. 



"England is a cruel mother. Most of her colonial children 

 have been born against her will, and she has often tried to 

 strangle them, both before and after bii-th. Though thus be- 

 gotton, they strangely enough have invariably regarded their 

 parent with imcpicuchable love, seeking her favour with rich 

 gifts and valuable seivices, only to be insulted and jilundered. 

 Fostering care of her colonies has never been the rule of the 

 greatest colonizing nation the world has ever seen. On the con- 

 trary, the colonists have generally been such as have tied from 

 England in bitterness of spirit, and the dominant policy of Eng- 

 land has alwaj's been to treat these exiles as a herd of condennied 



