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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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stem tliat the Americancolonies of Great Britain and of Spain revoltedand established their independence. The newconception of coloni(>s implies their governmentprimarily for tlieir own benefit. It is this con-ception which to-day unites Canada and GreatBritain by bonds more delicate than silk and yetstronger than steel. In short, this relation of the United States toits Territories is in essence guardianship, and isbased on a high sense of duty. It implies theold Anglo-Saxon safeguards for personal liberty,it implies local self-government, far more, in-deed, than is enjoyed by the District of Colum-))ia. But it also implies that federal citizenshipin the United States is a high privilege, not tobe -ranted lijjjhtlv and onlv to be won bv proveddesert. It implies, finally, that statehood in theAincM-ican Union is the Jiighest privilege of all,to which no Territory has an o priori right, andwhich hereafter will be bestowed charily andonly after long deliberation. -i^l ■ /^mr// s£A
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JMA1> OB- THE ItHINE-ELBl; CANAL. THE RHINE-ELBE CANAL-A FEATURE IN GERMAN POLITICS. BY PROF. JAMP:S HOWARD GORE ONE of the- most important measures thatwill come before the Prussian Con<i:ressduring the present session is tlie project for aship canal to connect the Rhine with the Ellx.It is important in itsflf and also because its fatewill decide the continuance of the general canalscheme on which (Jermany has been working Corthe past forty yeais. In discussing the interesttaken in tliis project by the German Governmentsurprise is expressed that so much stress shouldbe put upon this measure. In these discussionssight is lost of the fact that the individual statescontrol their local improvements and vote theneedful appropriations. The general govern-ment can outline a comprehensive scheme of in-ternal improvements, but when it comes to finalaction and grants of money the state congressesmust be apjjealed to. In the case of tlie Rhine-Elbe Canai it is Prussia that must bear thegr

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