VI. The means by which a closer union may be created and
maintained………………………………………..152
Preliminary……………………………………….153
The three methods examined by which a union may be
established……………………………………..154
By absorption of all into one nation……………..154
By establishing a federation…………………….154
By a treaty—regulating their conduct and intercourse
with each other………………………………155
The reasons existing against the first two, and in
favor of the last method………………………156
VII. The subjects to be covered by a Treaty…………….159
I. The Dominion of Canada to become a part of the United
States of America………………………………159
II. Common Citizenship……………………………..179
III. The establishment of freedom of commercial
intercourse and relations between the countries
involved, to the same extent as that which exists
between the different States constituting the United
States of America………………………………..202
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IV. Great Britain and the United States (I) to coin gold,
silver, nickel and copper money, not displaying the
same devices or mottoes, but possessing an equal money
value, and interchangeable everywhere within the limits
covered by the Treaty, and (2) to establish a uniform
standard of weights and measures…………………..205
I. The same gold, silver, nickel and copper money…205
II. To establish a uniform standard of weights and
measures…………………………………207
V. In case of any dispute hereafter occurring between
Great Britain, or any of her colonies, and the United
States, the same to be referred to a supreme court of
arbitration…………………………………….207
CONCLUSION. The state of public opinion upon the question
of Anglo-Saxon alliance…………………………….209
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INTRODUCTION
TO THE SECOND EDITION
I CANNOT but feel that the exhaustion of the first edition of this book so quickly, indicates that the public is, at least, interested in the questions it discusses.
I believe that the twentieth century is par excellence "The Anglo-Saxon Century," in which the English-speaking peoples may lead and predominate the world. My mind recoils from any other picture, because the failure of our people to assume the power committed to their hands means the segregation of nations and states, and the general disorganisation of society through cruel, bloody, and fratricidal wars. The elimination of war and the advancement of civilisation have been the motive of my book. To effect this object I have seen no other way than to concentrate power in the hands of the most worthy. If the Anglo-Saxon peoples do not come within that denomination, what other will?
The struggle for predominance, tacit or avowed, still goes on. No one important nation, in our {viii} times, is more content to remain in a second, or even an equal place, than at any former period of history. Choice then, being necessary, what choice shall be made? The answer of everyone who is likely to be within the circle of my readers, and whose mind is not prepossessed by some special and, as I must think, perverse influence, may be confidently anticipated. It will be that which I have given.