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Title: Newfoundland and the Jingoes
An Appeal to England's Honor

Author: John Fretwell

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Language: English

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NEWFOUNDLAND AND THE
JINGOES

_AN APPEAL TO ENGLAND'S HONOR_

BY
JOHN FRETWELL

BOSTON MASS.: GEO H. ELLIS
TORONTO, CANADA: HUNTER ROSE & CO.
WESTMINSTER ENGLAND: ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO.

COPYRIGHT 1895 BY JOHN FRETWELL.

COPYRIGHTED IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES
RIGHT OF TRANSLATION AND REPUBLICATION RESERVED

GEO. H. ELLIS, PRINTER, 141 FRANKLIN STREET, BOSTON.

"To be taken into the American Union is to be adopted into a
partnership. To belong as a Crown Colony to the British Empire, as
things stand, is no partnership at all.

"It is to belong to a power which sacrifices, as it has always
sacrificed, the interest of its dependencies to its own. The blood
runs freely through every vein and artery of the American body
corporate. Every single citizen feels his share in the life of his
nation. Great Britain leaves her Colonies to take care of
themselves, refuses what they ask, and forces on them what they
had rather be without.

"If I were a West Indian, I should feel that under the stars and
stripes I should be safer than I was at present from political
experimenting. I should have a market in which to sell my produce
where I should be treated as a friend. I should have a power
behind me and protecting me, and I should have a future to which I
could look forward with confidence. America would restore me to
hope and life: Great Britain allows me to sink, contenting herself
with advising me to be patient. Why should I continue loyal when
my lo