Already the rush to the Klondike has produced trouble in Alaska.

The aggressive miners from this side, who constitute almost the entire population, submit with ill-grace to Canadian authority.

They do not like it, and Dawson or some near point may yet become a second Johannesburg.
In all controversies so far, Canada has been as belligerent as England has been conciliatory.

With rare tact and diplomacy England has avoided all serious differences with this country over Canadian matters without at the same time offending the pride of the Dominion; just how long this can be kept up no man can tell; but not for more than a generation to come, if so long.
So far as the people of Canada are concerned, practically all would be opposed to any form of annexation.

The great majority of the people are Englishmen at heart and very English in thought, habit, speech, and accent; they are much more closely allied to the mother country than to this; and they are exceedingly patriotic.
They do not like us because they rather fear us,--not physically, not as man against man,--but overwhelming size and increasing importance, fear for the future, fear what down deep in their hearts many of them know must come.