250 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
America, and those chiefly Basques, while hundreds 
of thousands annually emigrate from Great Britain. 
Loyal Canadians, that is, loyal to Great Britain, 
must of necessity take into account this fact, which is 
of the very essence of British colonization in Amer- 
ica. They are also compelled to regard another se- 
rious fact of the same order of ideas, namely, the con- 
tinual emigration from:Canada to the United States, 
not only on the part of recent immigrants from Great 
Britain, but,—which is more noticeable as a sign of 
the times,—the emigration of old Canadians, natives 
of the soil, in spite of all the efforts of the Govern- 
ment to check and discourage it. 
On the other hand, the history of all European col- 
onization shows that a time comes when the Mother 
Country grows more or less indifferent to the fate of 
her Colonies, which time appears to have arrived in 
Great Britain as respects the Dominion. 
When Canada complains [without cause] that 
her wishes have been disregarded and her interests 
prejudiced by the stipulations of the Treaty of 
Washington, the great organ of opinion in England 
replies: 
“From this day forth look after your own busi- 
ness yourselves: you are big enough, you are strong 
enough, you are intelligent enough, and, if there were 
any deficiency in either of these points, it would be 
supplied by the education of self-reliance. We are 
both now in a false position, and the time has ar- 
rived when we should be relieved from it. Zuke up 
your freedom: your days of apprenticeship are over.” 
