Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-23

An interesting cOLNeHtiOh "e"S INV
recently in Novla Scotia. III WAS com
posed of descendants of the Areadial
remnant which was not deported by
the cruel British order descrOvo ~
Longfellow in "Evangeline.' But f1M
Acadians were left about the lay o.
Minas and the village of Grand Pre-
and it wrals supposed they would qu.ck
ly disappear. But not so WINE ths
emiolants who We're forced TO go to
Louisiana have never considerably III
creased in numbers, these who were
not expelled have multip1ed' me
French stock in Canada is extremely
fecund. and the Acad.ans now nunpel
a half MILTON. That their sense Oh
unity lis still strong is indicated by the
fact THAT the chief business before tAe
recent gathering was to securl Inc ap
nointment of 10 bishop who shall be o.
their race. 1t lis the dream OF the
Arcn1ians. as of the French anadLum
of Quebec. ahaI. Canada wild again pt
French. They offer no resistance W
the rule of Great Britain. but, never
theless, they cling with singular ten
and their religion. 49,.
The persistence of the French olooc
in Canada, and its separateneSS at'ei
nearlv two centuries of Brush RUE
illuls,t rtar.eea that which is "a grave weak
ne,s,s of the British empire. DespiN
her success as "a colonizer, England al
had little success in absorbing and as
similatlng other peoples, even 'thouS'
clolsely related. The French Canadian
is AS French as when Montcalmsurren
dered to Wolfe, and South Africa, al
ter nearly II century OF Eng.sh rue
is more Dutch than ever. Ireland, ar
tbouch for seven centuries under the
Enoli7sh crown, is aus vigorously lrlsf
us at any time in it's history. Amerl
cans loosely say they are from Eng
fish stock. yet our extraordinary pow
e,Is of assimilation must have CONT
from other sources, or else have deVel
oned from within ourselves. In the
United States Frenchman, German
Italian. Irish, Scandinayians quickly
forget their old language ana custom,
and delight to become Amerlcanizeo
while the pure English stock has never
this capacity ITO absorb. The English.
man. whether lat home or in the CONC
MES. manifests a race PRIDE ana
stubbornness in clinging to his own
WAYS which provokes similar race
nride and stubbornness on the pari
of others. Unwilling to modify nus
own conduct or habits, the Englsh'
man naturally fails to induce others
to modify their habits.
When the British empire begins W
topple, as some day it will, the semi
hostility of parts will greatly acceAer.
ate the fail. Nothing now dndlcatea
dis.lovalty on the part of the French
Canadians. but they have not much
love for Great Britain. They HOOK M
the ultimate Frenchifying of the whole
of Canada, and predict that, when Can
ada becomes independent it VIII be-
as it originally intended, New France
Circumstances may easily be ma gnled
which would stir the present qules'
cent anuagonism into active OPPOSE
tion to Great Britain. Likewise ID
South Africa, although the power OF
the Sword has reduced the Dutch Oh
the two republics and the Dutch n1
Cape Colony and Natal have feared To
rise. there is no doubt that three
fourths of the population is anti-Eng.
Oish. In Australia and New zealand
the large Irish population has lUtIe
abiding affection for the union jack
In India the English population is ba
a fraction OF fraction, and so else
where in the world where the British
flag floats. The habit of eXclnsiveness
lis firmly rooted in the English charac-
fer. and it is not likely there win be
any change. But time will demon
e,trate IL source of imperial weak
ness.