In this 150th anniversary of the creation of sa国际传媒, we are looking back at editorials published in our predecessor newspaper in 1867.
Through the year, one issue seemed to be bigger than all the rest. This week, the editors were back on the topic of Confederation.
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We are glad to know that the feeling in favour of Confederation is growing in the colony, and that there will soon be a decided expression of popular sentiment on the subject.
Everybody is agreed that the colony cannot long keep its head above water at the rate it is going now. The publication of the last financial statement by the government must have convinced the most skeptical on that point, and it is high time that steps were taken to add this colony to the new Dominion and save us from further disaster.
The necessity for the change, and the blessings that would flow from the union, must be so apparent to all that we wonder there is even a moment鈥檚 hesitation felt on the part of anybody.
If we are to grow as a colony, if we are to escape from the state of depression into which we have been plunged, it will be by Confederation upon fair and equitable terms with the colonies lying east of the Rocky Mountains.
What is necessary in the present crisis is action 鈥� prompt, decided, vigorous action. There need be no delay. 鈥淒elays are dangerous.鈥�
We can make better terms with the Confederacy today, with a ministry pledged to consolidate the whole of British North America in one great country, 鈥渨ashed by the spray of two oceans,鈥� than we can make one or two years hence with a ministry that may be exacting in their demands.
If the people will but give a 鈥済ood pull, a strong pull and a pull all together,鈥� the work will be accomplished.
The Daily British Colonist and Victoria Chronicle
Oct. 31, 1867
