The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-11-06
CANADA WOULD Be
LEFT TO HERSELF
Tendency Of the Dominion IS
Said to Be Toward IN
dependence.
VIEWS NOT UNDERSTOOD
Canadian Residents in England Un-
consciously Misropresent Sentiment
Ct Their countrymen of This
Side the Ocean.

Ottawa correspondence of the Boston
Transcript: How do Canadians regard
England? When the butler Of Theo-
phrastus Such was asked the cause Of the
tides he replied: Some Says one thing,
and some says another, but ii was to
give my opinion it 'ud be different Mr..
Chamberlain has been telling E~nglanders
to rely on the expressions OF prominent
Canadians resident IN London. Those ex-
pressions are nerrily read by many In
Canada, who understand, as Americans do
or conlpatriots abroad, that each consti-
tutes himself a dipIoInatist Of the school
which holds that d~iDlomatists are sent
abroad to tell taradiadles for the good of
their country. Are prominent and nice
Englanders resident in Boston, New York
or Chicago taken as examples Of English
opinion, when they talk for publication?
Any English who happen to read this
communication will know what is meant.
Decency and courtesy require uitlanders-
at least In a powerful country that can't
be raided-to say aloud only what Is pleas
Ilg to the circumjacent.
Canadians in England.
= the s,testimony--for p~ublication-of
prominent Canadians resident In London
were to be taken without d grain Of salt
this dominion contains about six million
people, including Indians, all competing
for the loyalty prize all praying for the
king morning, noon and night, with their
l n turned TO the mecca OF Winds
sCastle, al blessing Mr. Chamberlain as
me one true prophet; all eager to give ].
.. a preference In trade over everybody
else, Including themselves. It is mag
nifcent, and 1t may be peace, but when
one goes poking round in Canada for such
loSaiists re sees no more OF them than
Thoreau could Of the horse and the hawk
n the hound that were ever elusive. Is
there thensno loyalty to England in Can
ada? There is. lmmensities OF it. On the
whole honest, sane. trustworthy. It is
generally of the same quality as4the 10y.
atty that the Englishrnan who never was
out of kent#feels toward the Canadian at
calgary, or the Australian at Bendigo.
It says in its heart two things-.Thou art
my brother and Thou shalt want ere I
want. Aye, and a third Thou shalt be
backed by me against anybody else
whenever I feel like it." This is a salts
aa g tnree-loid poi,.lcal eord for. beard
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SIAnN5
Change OF M;nd.
Mark Twain the Wise. once remarked
on the f~oolishness of protesting thorough
knowledge Of the American mind. There
are many millions Of it, he said, In. effect.
Nobody can know 1t, or guess what it will
do in strange circumstances. Which Of
us who went into shattered Petersburg
or dreary Richmond in April, 1865, could
have conceived Of the American northern
mind as passiyely watching the slow re-
vfval OF negro slavery? Circumstances
change and nations are reformed by
them. IF there can be no accurate dag
nosis of the mind Of the comparatively
homogeneous republic how postulate any
thing OF the sentiment of heterogeneous
Canada? There are two main races and
two main creeds here: fifty other races,
and 140 other creeds. The units are scat
tered over half a continent; they all have
votes; they are all Canadians alike, and
all alike to be reckoled with in estimar-
ing Canadian sentiment. The ELUSIVE
sentimentalists in London appear uncon-
scious OF this when they represent Can
d fh1 an and On made uptfor the delsetation Of
AAs iat..iee guy.