The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-11-12
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Canada is deeply moved by the defeat
of her contention respecting the
boundary. If eastern Canada is dis
turbed the west is riotuous in speech
and demonstration. These express
sions are aimed, not particularly
against the United States, the victor
! in the contention, which, it was ex-
pected, would do the best it could to
enforce its claims to the coast line,
but the press and individuals turn
fiercely upon imperial England, which
but recently canada had given freely
of her blood and treasure to save from
disaster in South Africa, and which
in every crisis "My Lady of the
Shows" has Loyalty defended.
The Toronto World, known as the
strongest imperial sheet in the Do
minion, as always ridiouling the idea
of Granada ever separating from
England, is calling for communica-
tions to discuss the award, adding in
big tpye that this discussion "does
not necessarily suggest any political
change in our relations to the mother
country Such a menacing sugges-
ton, the opinion is, toward monarchic-
al institutions from a leading paper
before the verdict was rendered would
have provoked ridicule if not the pro-
tests of loyalists. Other dailies follow
by defying England to try any more
such rank favoritism for the United
States and asserting that England is
afraid to provoke the American re-
ian possessions as the price of peace.
Other papers publish large cartoons
representing England carrying Uncle
Sans coat tails across the whole of
British, North America.
The debate in the Canadian Parlia-
ment. also, was a significant evidence
of the seriousness of the dissatisfac-
tion in the Dominion over the award.
Preparations are making to banquet
the Canadian commissioners on a
grand scale, second not even to the
reception to the present King when as
, Prince of Wales he visited Canada in
1868 Canada as a nation has been re-
ceived with cheers of approval every.
, where between the two oceans. 1t is
difficult to understand the hitherto
persistent disposition of the Canadians
to cling to an old world monarchy
I when their destiny is SO clearly a
A matter of this continent. Geograph-
/ ically they have everything in common
> with the States and relatively nothing
= with the land across the sea. How
{ long will mere sentiment impel then
d to oppose their own vital material ant
9 political interests? writer discuss
: ing this phase of the subject says:
t "Canada is being Americanized il
q the most thorough manner Imaginable
and yet there is practically no senti
i ment in favor of annexation. In THU
II spasm of indignation they talk of sep
n aration, of independence, but not O
a annexation. But everything is Amer
lean all over the Dominion. tn
il American play is everywhere. Toront
(. and Montreal are the first big cite
1t for the heaviest dramatic aggrega
:. tions after leaving New York city
If there is an English company it
> rare. Yankee airs, Yankee clothes
Yankee flags and exYankees to b
10 seen everywhere Eastern Canad
If gets her beef largely from Chicago
and the big American biscuit com
d panies supply the Canadian table
a with everything in this line. The
le talk OF Canada for the Canadians an
mr. damn the Yankee. and go right o
-, preferripg his goods and his ways an
vi his company to those of the Englis
a, across the sea There is no distiI
is guishable difference between Amer
c cans and the Canadians. But a
" Englishman is in class by himself
IL Americans become fine Canadians al
he soon develop the same hostile feeliI
C. toward the republic, but the Englisl
hv men do not pick up Canadian way
~ They remain English. The conntl
n- can't absorb them. Many of the LEAF
lie ing Canadian citizens are ey-Amer
i'll cans and their loyalty is of as fine
II. type as the native. To Il
west the people have been attacht
III to the United States by ties of bloc
and commerce, for it is settled almo
wholly by Americans. They ha'
been SO remote from the centers
Canadian feeling that their sentime
toward imperialism is very vague.
led the same time they are the ones WI
o feel most deeply the loss of the Paci
"u territory. They are personally int
5he ested because now they cannot no
xa- for the Alaskan trade and the Klo
ee. dyke business except by an overla
= route. This is already being agitat
-, and will undoubtedly result in ria
l' road to the far north but in the mea
time all the coastwise trade must
a to the States.
.s@ While the sentiment may be for
Et dependence, tnat condition may be
~ the intermediary step to polite
-s3 union with the United States.
.St country 80 handicapped by politi
s.t and physical barriers as colonial OF
S5 ada is, as independent Canada wol
Sis be, minus the powerful political a
lbN military support of Great Brita
Sss could not make an empire out of so